That pretty much sums it up. I could go on, I suppose, and actually I might. The day started with breakfast out, at a splendid little diner with a lot of activity. The eggs and corned beef hash provided a nice base for the commute over the Ko’olau Mountains. On the Windward Side of the […]

10 June (1951) Senior Moment Gordy Howe, the greatest hockey player of the age, and my greatest sports hero as a kid, chose my birthday to join the big Production Line on heavenly ice. I am honored to share the day with him, and it makes me tingle a bit to think that my arrival […]

Each of the Hawaiian islands are unique and special places, and they are a long way from bustling Arlington. This is just a preliminary take on what I expect to be a memorable excursion. First notes: Travel out of Dulles on Wednesday morning is a plus. Try it, if you can. The crowd is thin, […]

It was an anonymous box on the oldest Naval reservation in the nation: the Washington Navy Yard. Building 213 is gone now, part of the re-development of the Washington Navy Yard. I had been meaning to tell you story, but did not get around to it. I am in a cab shortly to Dulles and […]

(Vic is shown here wearing the shirt that commemorates his impending 65th year of continuous, successful, sustained respiration on the planet Earth. It reads even more ominous than it sounds. It is a gift from a Black Labrador Retriever, discerning literary critic and Patriot). We jump around a little like Ricochet Rabbit here at The […]

This is a season with two anniversaries that are so significant and profound as to mention them before we do anything else. First is the one that is tantalizingly close but impossibly far away. We all knew someone growing up who had been there when Ike’s Armada steamed across the Channel to disgorge their cargo […]