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You might be done with it, the holiday part, anyway. Up here in DC they don’t go back to work until tomorrow. The position of those who intend to utilize the Twelve Days of Christmas for relaxed social norms is firm. The second day of the calendar year is also utilized to permit holiday casual libation regardless of […]
(Earnie Hemingway, second from left, celebrates the New Year with pal Gary Cooper in the year some of us were born, 1951. They are moving gradually forward in that line in Cuba at Havana’s Club Floridita. Things would transition to occur suddenly once they got a table inside). Just a quick note this morning, since […]
The Letter-Writer’s Manual For Every Occasion By E. A. Foley We wrote about stacks of stuff yesterday, since one of those stacks turned up a long-ago letter, neatly written in precise cursive script. A pal saw it and marveled at the craftsmanship in that social discipline, one that many shared nearly a hundred years ago. […]
The year began like any other, Full of hope, wonder, fear and surprises, Troubles and wars and rumors of war, And now another year arises. Last year was just the same in this, A bright future beckoned to all, What was possible or what would be, Just who would make that call? A New York […]
Editor’s Note: Marlow contributes one of three missives this morning. This is one about the Rules under which we should live. Later, Arrias will contribute an appreciation of our passing year in verse. Vic has a Manual on letter-writing and social conduct from a sweet lady whose future is passed. We share the memory of […]
This is the 6th Day of Christmas, which is enforced only because Splash does not want to be accused of wasting this curious week between holidays. In order to preserve early drinking by retaining this as a “holiday” edition, Management has informed us that a simple reference to Six Geese A’ Laying will suffice to […]
For those of us who refuse to give up the celebration, there was a huddle last night out on the Balcony at Big Pink. We got to the bottom of one of the bottles of beneficial Spirits procured over on Fort Myer yesterday. It is the 5th Day of Christmas for the diehards, and provision of […]
We looked around this morning at the usual morning Salty Coffee Klatch. There had been the consumption of the last dregs of Belmont Farms moonshine late on Three French Hens Days. There are supply chain issues about that matter. From here out, we will have to swoop over to Fort Myer to investigate provision of […]
(Jon-Without, Grace, Kathy and Vic spent the afternoon over a nice glass of wine and a surf-and-turf repast at Big Pink. The surf part was composed of Maine lobster and Wyoming Pure contributed the beefy delights). There was a moment this morning that conveys the challenges coming with a New Year. There are several of […]