It is a holiday today. The images from the flat screen tell us that is a good thing, since many people who would be otherwise be traveling to work will not. The snow and ice in our part of what used to be a Southern State will impede some commemorations, but it is one of […]

Morning! This is a day that starts with the temperatures hovering stubbornly in the upper teens. Skies gray, rippling with inadvertent menace. The Lady in Red from the flat screen says the freezing rain will arrive around noon. Morning is thus filled with small chores- more wood, of course, and the periodic glance from the […]

Splash crashed. It was sort of ironic, since an incident like that involving a lost multi-million dollar jet is where his callsign originally came from, but this one was caused by productive labor in the interest of the limited public good surrounded by the pastures to the south and the formal front gardens that ace […]

Editor’s Note: There is a bunch of stuff to talk about in Domestic issues to end the news cycle component of the week, but Legal has decided they want to review such pieces of- what are we calling it? “Satiric parody?”- to avoid anything subject to misinterpretation. The Writer’s section decided a visit to the […]

So here we go. We are aware of the new Footnote that is supposed to start these things out. The essence of it is that we support the government of the United States, it’s elected officials, and particularly those who could administer sanctions against kindly and aged citizens. These Weather Reports have a long history […]

It is one of those delightful mornings in the Piedmont. Temperatures hesitantly seemed to be rising to the freezing point, while the astonishing depth of the sky above shouted unsaid that there is beauty in this world, and that it is a pleasure to be alive. Despite the environment, DeMille looked solemn. That is not […]

(Manual Labor beckons from the drive at Refuge farm. The Snow may melt again. Photo Socotra) We had that big announcement yesterday about a New Wrinkle on an old trade in a strange town. Washington, DC. Generally speaking, we have enjoyed the accidents that washed us up there, with the people always at the heart […]

(Original logo artwork at Socotra House founding. Art by Stacy Hoffhine, 2002) Author’s Note: These are exciting and historic times. Socotra House has an exciting new project in the works that will dramatically expand the scope of work of the company. As a part of that, the following represents a portion of a new line […]

Splash is usually more alert than the rest of the crew early on, and maintains that status through lunchtime based on the fact that he is a couple cups of coffee ahead of the rest of us. It could be annoying, but there is a productions schedule to run, bills must be paid, and those […]

Emotional week! It was 7.2 Degrees (F) this morning, the first noted single digit temps this year in Virginia’s rich Piedmont territory. If one does not count the decimal points, anyway. Since the morning chaos over messages and messaging erupted, we have gone up 16.7 degrees. That is the natural world, of course, unlike the […]