Well, if you have to fail, do so spectacularly. Teddy Roosevelt said something like that, I forget when, but screw it. He was right. And we did. Fail. Epically. I have to acknowledge my partners in the failure, who contributed with élan and espirit, and a certain indomitable panache that made me proud to be […]

This is short and sweet this morning, since I have to leave to pick up Jon Without in a few minutes to join Louie the Coastie and prepare to row across the Potomac, beach the gig, clamber out of the mighty brown river and identify and document the last remaining Stone of the District we […]

Gentle Readers, I am out of airspeed and good ideas this morning- not that there isn’t stuff worth talking about as a sit-in is held on the floor of the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court hands a tie vote to the President which means his executive action on deportation of undocumented workers (is that […]

No, sorry. I meant to bother you much earlier with this but the day got completely away from me, but I can tell you why. Not that anyone cares, but I thought it was worth mentioning. So, Front Page last night, blowing off some steam from a worthless presentation that had to be done….because the […]

(This fuzzy image is one of the few that Art permitted to be posted on his Linked-In profile. He preferred a low public profile). Art left on my birthday this month, and the official obit was only disseminated yesterday. I was out of town when he passed, but had heard he was ailing- an aggressive […]

So, the summer is already flying by. The 4th of July is looming, and then it is going to be Fall, and the glorious pool will close again. And then the election, which is the strangest one I have observed since I was first able to listen to the news, which was about the time […]

(The trusty Lodge 8″ cast-iron skillet with Nueske’s apple-cured bacon this morning). I saw the recipe by Frances Lam in the Times this morning. I have read the times for years, a family tradition that was passed down from the Socotra family’s days living near the Short Hills in Jersey a century ago. I continue […]

As you have been made painfully aware, the traveling circus was on the road for a delightful visit with family on the lovely island of O’ahu in the distant mid-Pacific. The visit was, by turns, tranquil and high-energy. The family rental is around the corner from some new low-rise condos, cheerfully advertised as “Two Bedrooms […]

We decided Kaena Point was a good destination, the home of the legendary Big Waves and Polo and Dillingham Air Park, with the gliders and parasails and all the rest. We intended to stop for a bite at the restaurant that now occupies the site of the legendary Jamison’s By the Sea in historic Haleiwa. […]