Oh goodness. It is starting again as the clock ticks inexorably toward the new year. The lists- you know, the significant things that define a very strange year. I can’t grapple with it all. It began with the Russia Collusion scandal- or whatever it is. There were calls for the President’s impeachment before he even […]

Christmas Eve already. Amazing how the time flies, isn’t it? I have a string of lights out on the patio and a festive light shining on the pumpkin on the porch. The World’s Most Pathetic Christmas tree spreads it wire-and-green needles in the corner with some merry colored lights to buoy my seasonal spirits even […]

COMMENT: Below is provided FYI, from Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) webpage. I bullet-ized it for easier digestion —— BTW, from Yokosuka, the core of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, I wish you: Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, and “Yoi O-Toshi Wo”…! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = […]

The winter Solstice is tomorrow and we can begin to get some daylight back and move toward Spring. The Swamp has been busy this week. Most of the action was on the tax bill, which like the Affordable Care Act, passed without a single bi-partisan vote. The FBI continues to melt down. Either a big […]

平成29年12月18日 = (18 DEC 2017) (McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantoms of US Navy Fighter Squadron 151 fly echelon formation over Mt. Fuji. Photo USN). – – – – – = This week’s poem: Naval Station Great Lakes You stand the watch, hour after hour, Tired and bored, but alert Making decisions, wielding power, Over mostly trivial things […]

So here we are- Christmas roaring down, the new year looming, and there is too much going on, nationally, professionally and personally to really deal with. I think this is going to go down as One Of Those Years when we think about it, as a prelude to something really big that might have been […]

  Editor’s Note: This is a a feeble halting step in putting together the next book, while I await some editorial work on the recently completed first draft of the unconventional biography “Cocktails With the Admiral.” I did a pretty good job of keeping notes on the last years of my folks. It is a […]

(Fred, wearing #92 goes after Quarterback Don Bunce in the 1972 Rose Bowl). 13 December 2017 Frederick E. Grambau (born August 30, 1950) at Salt Lake City, UT. He was with family at the time of his passing. Known as “Kool” to his college friends and team-mates (and #92 to his fans), he played college […]

OK, so our current favorite bar is shuttering its doors on the 30th. One of our Polish lifeguards is back and determined to build a new life in America- on a tourist visa. I have no idea how to help. Yesterday, another jihadi attacked New York..and failed spectacularly. I am not going on the Metro […]