But here is how fast it is. The other evening. I was motoring sedately down Glebe Road- a major north-south artery here in Arlington. It is an old road, sort of like Outer Drive in Detroit, which isn’t anymore. This one ran to the Glebe House of the Church of England in Colonial times but […]

24 December 2002   Manger Square   Vicky Barker is in good voice this morning. It is Christmas Eve and there are some important gestures happening around the world. The President of the United States has given me the afternoon off. Not me alone, of course, it is the entire Federal Workforce. Because of the […]

27 December 2002   Once Over, Lightly   It is five in the morning here on Arlington Boulevard, but it is ten hundred hours in London, and the world has already been hard at work. I stumble out of bed and note that Venus is hanging in the east and the Moon is at half. […]

11 August 2002 Some things have changed and others have not. George has married Judy, a successful attorney from Bath, and they have produced two wonderful kids, Annie and Frazier. They now occupy the old family cottage and the parents have bought the place next door, up the hill. Cousins are across the street and […]