(Wait, that is Afton Street in Detroit a half century ago! What I meant to say was: Ah! There is is; Cheju-Do, the “do” meaning “island.”” This was an interesting start to the week in the Rehab Center. Well, sort of, if the release happens. I have a couple working devices on the little table […]

Author’s Note: The current Hospital Stint is lurching to the end, we hope. The ankle wound feels better, and release may be forthcoming this week. Proof of the ability to return to life on my own is progress on the book about the end of the Cold War. So, in that spirit, there we are […]

This is a success story, of sorts. As you may have noticed, they are a little unusual at the moment. I am plotting my release from post surgical time at the rehab center down in Culpeper, hoping to be back with the crowd at Refuge Farm next week. Healing seems to be proceeding each day, […]

We are breaking the sweltering heat of the fullness of history today. It has been twenty or thirty days of stultifying warmth. The flat-screen has been whimpering about triple-digit sweat for weeks. The weather-guessers have been giddy with reports of mildness that could last more than a week, and our pal, president of the Hoosier […]

It is that time of the summer. The one that is a little stressed out with humidity and heat. That has been the challenge here at the Culpeper Rehab Facility. We have a break withan extended forecast staying in the 80s. The Lady in Red claimed there were onlu 30-odd days to Autoumn. To the […]

HAIFA, ISRAEL: INTIFADA FOLLIES œœ 11 © 17 MAR 90 11 MAR: Among the Believers. We dropped the hook at 0730 in the roadstead off Haifa. I was up, bright as a penny, for the Ops Meeting in CVIC. I was already resigned to the inevitable delays in getting off the ship; what with the […]

The Writer’s Section is shooting a bright flare over the rehab center in Culpeper. Home is now not much more distant than the lower slopes of Mount Pony. From the latest temporary accommodation of this adventure. We will keep this edition apart from the details and bright surgical lights as a minor flare. It signifies […]

Editor’s Note: We have a strict policy on commentary regarding policy. Our policy is to not have an official position on anything. – Vic Author’s Note: One reader responded to yesterday’s surly pithiness below with this one liner “I was thinking about it this morning…if not Kamilla, then good old Nancy. Yikes!” Here now are […]

(Russians rocket Odesa the day after inking an agreement to re-open Ukrainian ports). The games of Summer are continuing as Fall looms. Issues are war, food and energy. In terms of what is happening in one of the problem areas: · Ukraine and Russia seal deal to open Odesa port 22 July · Intended to […]

The Writers Section at Refuge Farm threatened an update on Energy for this week. We have not reconsidered that matter, though the perspective on the issue has been as transitory as some other issues are not. The dead-even balance in the Senate between Blue and Red is clearly the factor this week, and Senator Joe […]