(On the Way to Manger Square, Bethlehem, 1990) It was 2008 at Big Pink, on the West bank of the Potomac River. I reached over and turned the station. I was starting to analyze the Somali threat, and what we got wrong in our adventure in Mogadishu a decade ago, and the sponsored Ethiopian invasion […]

To mark the Solstice and the week, we turned off the news in the conference room. No panels, no crawls, no updates from the wider human derailment. Instead, we wandered into the seasonal video entertainment we’d been ignoring while waiting for Santa—this one with the stout beared fellow improbably trapped in an AI-generated psychic globe […]

(A distant view of the world famous Shopping Bag high-rise, the “Good Luck Bear” taped to the overhead of the group mobility van, the wreck, the Fire Fighters and the Fairfax Police responded and alert drivers found a cut through off the big road and we got around it. Without use of horn. Things in […]

This is an unusual edition of the Socotra House Daily. it begins with an apology for allowing the past catch up to us as the future arrives. Some of the Boomers in the group are now proud grandparents of some attractive “Gen A” kids, and that is what started the discussion, since we didn’t know […]

t back to my office and ordered a dozen clip-on bow ties. If a tie was required at all times, it would be one I could put on in seconds and forget about. I never wore a long tie again. Only later did I notice the line running backward. My grandfather, in his customary bow […]

There was a certain pensive air that wafted through the Holiday Spirit we are attempting to festoon around the conference room. The big flat-screen at the north end of the Conference Room was featuring that 5-ft-8-inch stocky-built alleged murderer from Brown University, plus another run through on the killings in Sydney, Australia at the Bondi […]

Rocket was holding a glowing image of the horrific events at Bondi Beach at the South End of the conference table. Splash sat across from him with his iPad flat, glowing upward with a hazy image of a man in dark clothing walking around the corner at Brown College in Rhode island. Holly had a […]

(4th Floor Elf Staffers mixed it up with Santa Claus this morning about the Comet Thing. The kids thought the arrival of an interstellar visitor to the solar system might mean an alien invasion to coincide with Christmas. The Boomers sighed at the notion of a trajectory required for something that big to have traveled […]

It was a tough decision at Socotra House this morning about The Daily. Fun feature or catastrophic chaos coverage? The 15 Minute County project has a direct relationship to news from across the River about elimination of restrictions on car sales and permitted designs. It fits with the project we are working on about the […]

Here is what our snow expert Valentina had this morning: Miles had to laugh. There was a nice transitional graphic from the Millennial group who are part of the advance group who lived in Fairfax with their folks. They had to drive the roads out there in all sorts of conditions, so you can imagine […]