(This fuzzy image is one of the few that Art permitted to be posted on his Linked-In profile. He preferred a low public profile). Art left on my birthday this month, and the official obit was only disseminated yesterday. I was out of town when he passed, but had heard he was ailing- an aggressive […]

So, the summer is already flying by. The 4th of July is looming, and then it is going to be Fall, and the glorious pool will close again. And then the election, which is the strangest one I have observed since I was first able to listen to the news, which was about the time […]

(The trusty Lodge 8″ cast-iron skillet with Nueske’s apple-cured bacon this morning). I saw the recipe by Frances Lam in the Times this morning. I have read the times for years, a family tradition that was passed down from the Socotra family’s days living near the Short Hills in Jersey a century ago. I continue […]

As you have been made painfully aware, the traveling circus was on the road for a delightful visit with family on the lovely island of O’ahu in the distant mid-Pacific. The visit was, by turns, tranquil and high-energy. The family rental is around the corner from some new low-rise condos, cheerfully advertised as “Two Bedrooms […]

We decided Kaena Point was a good destination, the home of the legendary Big Waves and Polo and Dillingham Air Park, with the gliders and parasails and all the rest. We intended to stop for a bite at the restaurant that now occupies the site of the legendary Jamison’s By the Sea in historic Haleiwa. […]

This is going to be short- the events I am going to recount actually strung out all day, under brilliant sunshine with some scattered puffy clouds. I am not going to get into the latest horror in Orlando, which happened before we actually went to sleep here, but didn’t find out about until our eyes […]

That pretty much sums it up. I could go on, I suppose, and actually I might. The day started with breakfast out, at a splendid little diner with a lot of activity. The eggs and corned beef hash provided a nice base for the commute over the Ko’olau Mountains. On the Windward Side of the […]

10 June (1951) Senior Moment Gordy Howe, the greatest hockey player of the age, and my greatest sports hero as a kid, chose my birthday to join the big Production Line on heavenly ice. I am honored to share the day with him, and it makes me tingle a bit to think that my arrival […]

Each of the Hawaiian islands are unique and special places, and they are a long way from bustling Arlington. This is just a preliminary take on what I expect to be a memorable excursion. First notes: Travel out of Dulles on Wednesday morning is a plus. Try it, if you can. The crowd is thin, […]

It was an anonymous box on the oldest Naval reservation in the nation: the Washington Navy Yard. Building 213 is gone now, part of the re-development of the Washington Navy Yard. I had been meaning to tell you story, but did not get around to it. I am in a cab shortly to Dulles and […]