I made it back to town with minimal delay from the outskirts of Pittsburgh just after the noon hour passed. It was a glorious day, part of the same weather system Jinny had directed for her interment. I was listening to the audio version of this month’s Book Group selection, a strange novel set in […]

So, yesterday, my fingers flew over the keyboard, trying to recount the wonders of the Rosie Road-Trip at the Holiday Inn Express north of Columbus, OH. The whole Rosie delivery saga still had me energized- jazzed, in fact- and damn the expense. I had to be in Ohio anyway. I checked the Google Earth algorithm […]

The rain started spattering against the side of the Kokomo Holiday Inn Express around three AM. My brother was snoring in the bed next to me, and suddenly awake, I began to think beyond the end of the mission, when the Pepto-Bismo-colored flanks of the classic Rambler Station Wagon would take up her position in […]

The blizzard swept from the north and east. I wandered down to the lobby to get one of the larger cups they have for the house-blend coffee and looked out past the registration desk and saw the white stuff blowing sideways. We looked at Doppler radar, and the immensity of the front passing mostly to […]

We used to call at Roosie Roads, Puerto Rico, and could not resist the title. Sorry. We had some fun there, before he venerable old Spanish-American War vintage base was shuttered, and the island of Vieques was bombed for the last time. But it was Rosie’s Roads yesterday. We poured some raw gas down the […]

Well, I thought we closed out the memories of the old days in the P.I. and Japan, as related by Virginia Ann Wheeler Martin yesterday. She was a dear friend, and we will all miss her enormously. If you happen to be in the neighborhood of Seville, OH, on Tuesday, April 12, at 2:00 pm, […]

So, this morning ends in triumph: I walked down to the barn to make a valiant last try at starting the Rambler, expecting to find the battery dead from the exertions of yesterday. I did not touch the gas pedal, having convinced myself I had flooded her yesterday with what a remembered was the customary […]

01 April 2016 Editor’s note: No joke, despite the date. I was going to continue the story of that Med Cruise long ago and try to stay away from getting emotional about the current chaos of a nation turning itself inside out and not doing very well at it. Messy business, but that is not […]

Editor’s note: more complete idiocy out there on the campaign trail yesterday. I am going back where the only real threat in the world is a heavily armed Soviet Union in 1989. Gentle Readers, remember, if you will, the merry band of Carrier Air Wing SIX embarked in USS Forrestal (CV-59) who did not know […]

(George Washington Plunkitt, late of the New York Legislature, and Tammany Hall. He was a master of practical politics). I didn’t think they could get me to do it, but they have. I am an intensely political beast, and I have always had a fondness for the rough-and-ready nature of the American political process, warts […]