We are going to keep this short and to the point, since they are suiting up over in London, England, for an unlikely kick-off in a little over an hour. The Conference Room on the 4th deck of The Trillium in Fairfax is still strewn with some of the leftovers from the day-long Sports presentation […]

The Daily Socotra — Saturday Edition We thought we would start with what is coming out of the Galley for the noon football kickoff. It is going to be a Big Ten sort of Saturday, with the Indiana Hoosiers and Ohio State Buckeyes commanding attention, and our resident Michiganders keeping a wary eye on whatever […]

  Cooking for the Crowd | 1950s Midwest Classics | Game-Day Edition A proper Johnny Marzetti belongs in the Buckeye Section of the Socotra Galley collection! His classic casserole is from his hometown in the Caroll and Stark County areas of NE Ohio, That is the Massillon-Canton metro area where his Irish side settled down […]

You can see the pace of things pick up with the Senior folks from other times come back to tell the ones serving now just exactly things got the way they are that require fixing. Or make attributes to the non-participants or something, It was a joyful reiteration of many great times past! The Usual […]

And something Exciting is coming to SOCOTRA! From the Baltimore side of the Beltway to the neighborhood Galley in McLean! Of course, Miles told me- Deirdre! to do a quick note on what is going to happen this week as the last hot afternoon of summer has passed and we may be settling into the […]

And Jersey Mike’s Sub in a Tub! Lauren tells me that she started her upward mobility in the culinary world as a sandwich assembler in a shop near where she grew up. she learned the basics in a way we have pioneered here at Socotra House with our Journalism-Current Events and DC-Hot-House educational apprenticeships we […]

The Conference Room on the 4th floor of The Trillium was all busted this morning with the election stories of raids on Congressional offices and other high-jinks in the Ambassadorial ranks to Greece.. We appreciate a mobile breakfast aid like this to help get started: Some folks had done the overnight message streaming and others […]

This was going to be a nice dance-off about what could be the last day of this long summer that will be in the low 90s in temperature. And the last afternoon we can be starting to assemble some of the core-pit equipment that will keep The Boy s busy as we dive into the […]

We were going to do something under what may be a last kiss of semi-summer sun in NoVA. After the big storms there is a perfect bliss of azure above the patio! The METOC crowd at Socotra House who watch the Weather Channel say we have a seasonal warmth for a day or two before […]

  It is New Years! It is a day we used to celebrate with smiles on the little budget staff nestled in the bowels of the big five-sided building a shade less than fourteen miles away from the Trillium Picnic Table. We used to do a whimsical sort of party with a glass of wine […]