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 […]

(Vic is shown here wearing the shirt that commemorates his impending 65th year of continuous, successful, sustained respiration on the planet Earth. It reads even more ominous than it sounds. It is a gift from a Black Labrador Retriever, discerning literary critic and Patriot). We jump around a little like Ricochet Rabbit here at The […]

This is a season with two anniversaries that are so significant and profound as to mention them before we do anything else. First is the one that is tantalizingly close but impossibly far away. We all knew someone growing up who had been there when Ike’s Armada steamed across the Channel to disgorge their cargo […]

I was on a mission from God. Or somebody after The Blonde telephoned me from the Lake. I had called Jon-Without and Heather to see if they wanted to join me for a cross-country adventure to find the Original Willow Bar, but Heather explained that she was trapped at a wedding in Cape May with […]

(The Blonde took this shot yesterday at a restaurant called “the Cove” at Lake Anna. I am headed there now). OK- time to take a deep breath. We got the boys back from their cruise, celebrated the heroes of the Battle of Midway on the anniversary of the first day of that fight, and am […]

As you know, I did a series of articles on the commemorative events scheduled for the Battle of Midway Week, 04-07 June. Having written them was almost as good as having actually done them, so I sort of forgot about them. It is appropriate that am writing now 74 years from the exact time the […]