This is an account of the mess I managed to get myself into as I approached retirement, but which has its roots in my boyhood, and the thrilling aspect of contact sports. First was football, then lacrosse and the occasional and spirited crashes while on duty as a Ski Patroller. The distance running that I […]

Larry Seaquist: the Leader Pierce County Needs! I am a dedicated voter. I view it as a duty, and living and working in the Washington Beltway hothouse, I have had the pleasure to meet some of our legislative luminaries. I want to tell you about an extraordinary friend and public servant who defines what we […]

There is a fair but tolerable level of gunfire here at the farm in all the seasons to augment the sound of tractors and the occasional rumble of livestock truck out on the county road. I am happy to join in the shooting when my mood is right. An exception was last Friday- or very […]

Washington DC, 1970 The news is babbling abut today being the biggest of the protests against…well, I am not quite sure. I think it was about Mr. Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. The imagery was horrific, and a dozen or more citizens have died in the rioting that followed peaceful […]

Hey. With everything else going on in this strange time, the events of the middle distance of history got obscured. Plague and intrigue. Hysterial politics and killer wasps. With all that to occupy our limited attention span, I think it is appropriate to make the effort to remember, even as some are calling for the […]

So, things have been quiet and wet and chilly and gray these past few months. The color of the sky seemed to fit the strange events on the ground almost perfectly. We transition to something else tomorrow- secret plague code 1A, or 2.0, or whatever our strange Governor is calling it. He is eager to […]

Editor’s Note: In Virginia, our Governor has announced a new set of officials who can harass us, his constituents. Marlow notes what is happening in his Coastal Empire as America seems to be opening up again… -Vic  Author’s Note: Recently I heard Savannahian Johnny Mercer’s original version and felt its perfection as a, if […]

General Order No. 11 Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868 I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in […]

I packaged and sent an installment of Marlow’s series on the plague this morning. I love his hang loose approach to global pandemic, always with a distinct rhythm of melody and distant old times. Or new ones. The House passed a three trillion dollar bill, biggest in the history of the republic in one shot. […]

Retirement is odd. I think it is Friday, a festive reflection of a work rhythm of all those years of schedules. Now this week I lost Wednesday altogether and it didn’t seem to mind. In the background is everything else, all swirling around like a Joe Biden interview. So the Flynn thing blew up again. […]