So, it is the Ides of March, the murder of a man on the Rostrum in Imperial Rome that now marks the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire. I am suspicious of metaphors, and think they are way too pat a way to make a point. I had this nice story going that […]

(The amazing new Club House at Army-Navy Country Club that replaced the stately and crumbling old one that had its roots in the original 1924 structure. Photo ANCC.) It is not the Ides of March until tomorrow- you know, the one in which the Bard commended us to beware, due to lean and hungry look […]

(The Willow Lunch Counter Special for Wednesday: Brian’s spaghetti and meat balls with the best damn garlic bread I have tasted lately). CNN was running the Chinese satellite imagery of the three chunks of possible debris not far from the point of last contact with the missing Malaysian jet, and that was where the matter […]

(File photo of EgyptAir Flight 990 on a better day. Photo Wikipedia). I am so over this winter, and it won’t get its claws out of us. I was awake at one thirty, still wrestling with the time change. I have given up on the tossing-and-turning thing, and just pad to the kitchen, looking for […]

(The Malaysian Boeing 777-200ER that has gone missing, taking off in better times last year. Photo Malaysian Air Lines.) Goodness, there is a lot going out there in the wide world. The mystery of the missing Boeing Jet in the South China Sea- or as of this morning, perhaps the Strait of Malacca- is one […]

I got out of Arlington later than I had anticipated- hey, it was Sunday, right, and after that unpleasant Spring Forward that cost us an hour of sweet sleep? I had several good ideas that did not come to fruition, but the drive was pleasant under crisp blue skies, a little cooler than Sunday, but […]

(Peggy’s Stretch Lincoln Town Car at the Willowcroft Farm Winery on the first short-sleeve day of pre-Spring). I was going to take off early for the farm but the early news suggested the first fatality of Daylight Savings Time may have happened at the junction of US-29 and Vint Hill Road, which is about a […]

It is a lovely pre-spring morning, though it comes with a certain chronological anxiety. It makes me savor this morning, since the light is back, at least until tomorrow, as the seasons begin their stately transition. The Government is going to step on that, of course, since at midnight tonight we are going to set […]

(A crowd estimated at 500 gathers outside Ben’s Chili Bowl’s new location on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. (Photo by Kimberly Suiters/All-News 99.1 WNEW) Too freaking cool. I will not have to comment this morning on the Jobs Numbers, or the stand-off in Crimea, or the latest razor cut of this awful winter’s sleety mix. I […]

The Big Thaw is not here, not today. We had a good start yesterday and the snow is off the police car’s blue flanks, but it lingers elsewhere. It is gray and hovering below freezing, but the happy voices on the radio tell us that we will be up to the sixties by this weekend. […]