I was going to call this “midway,” since it is just halfway through this summer of stress and lunacy, and it seems like a good nautical term to mark this point on the calendar. I was about to type the words when I realized a lot of acquaintances and occasional readers might think I was […]

(Former Representative John Lewis, RIP) John Lewis passed from this earth last night. He has been a part of my conscious life for a long time, and a man I admire even if he is no longer with us in being. With Dr. King, one of my heroes, Lewis was one of the “Big Six” […]

Thought you’d escaped, eh? I found the rest of Great Grandfather’s notes of his tour of Europe for April, 1903. I would inflict them on you this morning, but no chance, Buckaroos. The world that existed in the early days of a new century are interesting, as we all know from experiencing our lurch into […]

(Photo Daily Mail. Images of far lower quality than this were precious in building target packages) Thursday is the day I am supposed to know the most about what is going on, but with an emphasis on what the things are going to be like as outcomes of what we see today. On Thursdays in […]

Well, here we go again! The break for the holiday many did not celebrate in the traditional way has passed, and we are back to the tumult of the campaign that has never ceased. This, as you know, is laid across the lives that we have to live anyway, which in the best of times […]

I am both exhilarated and appalled at the latest project, which is to complete the editing of a couple books I had started while on the way to something else. I enjoyed the daily addition to the stories, and the sundry distractions of life that wrapped itself around longer term issues. I have three or […]

So, it was a stressful week so far. Grace and I packed up and left the farm property. We were both optimistic. The plague seemed to have been back, and it was time to interact with the world again, including a trip to the Dentist after months of erratic closures. I have been with the […]

On the 4th, we had guests in from Arlington, and I was quick to put one of the rambunctious males to work before things started in earnest. I asked for help to close the south side doors to the barn, which somehow got opened. I don’t know how that happened, but I am adamantly opposed […]

I was so exhausted from grilling and entertaining over the holiday that I thought I would get some sleep last night. The sun is setting these strange days just before nine, and that is when the explosions began to ring out along the farm lane. I was jumpy, either from the prescribed medication or something […]

It is the day before one that many of us consider a national holiday, and it is a hot sunny good one. There are others who do not consider it so, and are quite shrill about it this year. To me, the blue skies are filled with the roar of WWII rotary engines above the […]