So, I may not be the most alert sailor at the helm of his little ship, but this is a big week. In many of the states, the Governors are reducing civic restrictions to ensure the plague is held at bay. Life during the crisis down at the farm is essentially unchanged since the panic […]

Hi! It has been a while since you got a nice cheery postcard from Your Nation”s Capital. Maybe this isn’t it, either, but one does what one can in times of crisis. The brilliant pink of the first foliage of the spring are fading now, and the green quilt is thickening for the summer. There […]

Editor’s Note: The President announced “weapons free” for USN units to deal with Iranian harassment in the Gulf. I do not recall such an announcement in my times, so maybe this is what deterrence looks like these days. In an attempt to analyze the current and heavily nuanced crisis, I thought it might be useful […]

Editor’s Note: I am in an undisclosed location in Virginia’s historic and lovely Northern Neck. I am working off the iPad and phone, and neither gives me much flexibility. I will have some observations about the trip, which will eventually follow the Historyland Highway, originally cut through the brush by the legendary planter King Carter […]

Editor’s Note: We are taking a brief break from a longer break, but this struck me as right for the upside-down year. I have been watching too many Hallmark movies and am now fully ready to put up the holiday lights. It is literally the first time in my life that I feel disconnected to […]

I am not going to drive you bonkers with a description of what it is like to have three months razored out of your stream of life as the world collectively threatens to crumble. It is an interesting process, is all I will offer. I have found that if you sprinkle the crackling dreams with […]

So, we are back, if we ever left, and the turnkeys who run the asylum here by the Potomac are back, with impeachment to roll out on the Hill at mid-week. Of course, given the lively nature of attempting to overthrow the US Government, there are been a lot of changes. 40 years ago I […]

This is a big one. I was trying to figure out the concept of blogging, those 20 years ago with the dread Y2K event coming that would do all sorts of terrible things. They didn’t, but a whole lot of other things did. Everyone is doing the events of 2019 in list and retrospectives. I […]

Well, ‘Tis the season, right? I have no idea where the time went. Almost Christmas; huge political circus going on, which has been swelling like discolored fruit for nearly three years. Well, you can’t say it has not been fun. Boeing continued it’s horrible, no good, very bad day this morning. America’s heavy space-lift capability […]

Jingle Bells on the Tidal Basin Wild times in the Swamp this week. I would attempt an analysis of it, but why bother. I am shellshocked and think I might hear silver bells… Having a wonderful time- wish you were here!