Artemis II Lunar Mission Profile (NASA Dates are for Future Planning). We are starting to shut things down now here at Socotra House. History is happening at unimaginable speed. There is history flying above us at around 35,000 miles an hour. You can see the reason for our post-Easter confusion with the animated close-by lunar […]

(Jinny Martin’s cake topper- saved all these years and done in perfect harmony to the original dress). . Vice Admiral Rex Rectanus enjoyed a wonderful marriage of 49 years to Derlie, formerly of Jacksonville, Florida. It only ended with her death in 1998, and they adored one another. It occurred to me frequently in the […]

There are words- strong ones- that go with the ups and downs of April 3, 2026. Both directions carry with them great danger and wild excitement at the closeness- and distance- of eternity. The Socotra House Creative Crew was mostly joined in the conference room for the events surrounding the Artemis 2 lunar mission. The […]

Miles smiled at the faces arrayed along the conference table as Good Friday’s dawn glow was lost in the dark gray mist out the windows. Temperature was in the 50s, giving us a little shiver on the way in from the Parking Lot. There was no shivering for those who came down from the 6th […]

Miles was not pleased. Three devices sat in front of him on the broad expanse of the 4th Floor Conference Room table. He looked up at the assembled faces. “OK. You don’t expect me to lead the Daily with one of these? Where is the shot of Artemis II lifting off over the Cape—heading for […]

We had been working on a little human-interest style features for The Daily listings to see if we could snag some additional clicks on the view-meter. We had some general direction from the Chairman to take a page out of the DEI playbook and open what had been a rambling Cruise Book-style account of old […]

Dierdre had a late meeting with Miles in the conference room on Monday. The Boomers were long gone, headed for the 40th anniversary celebration over at Mr. Days Sports Bar in Clarenden. She was concerned about product placement in the Dailies and her role as bringing the old Vibrant Cuisine messaging stream that Jinny Martin […]

Dierdre burst into the Conference Room with a declarative announcement that seemed to bounce inward from the swirling gray outside the wide glass windows. “Y0!“ she said, pointing to Holly, who was leaning in from the Galley door with three brown grocery bags. Each was heaped tall with colorful boxes and containers. “I have a […]

Pastor fRank had done his Holy Week kick-off over at the Fairfax Ecumenical Chapel using young Reilly as an example from his group of theological students at the Temple of the Mystic Notion. It was a typical elliptical sermonette about examples, good and bad, that leaven the various philosophic pillars of thought. And how wisdom […]

We have, as the President has often remarked, already won the conflict. Sadly, we are not referring to the continuing conflict overseas. What appears to be happening in that regard is that the people of Persia have been led by a savage branch of militant Islamist, one committed to the triumph of their version of […]