Great Turn-out at the first Celebration of Naval Attaches- 50 Attendees for inaugural network event and celebration of Line and Intelligence Officers who have served as attaches around the world- making history! Old Town Sonoma Cellars owners Rick and Elizabeth Myllenbeck in Old Town Alexandria provided a sparkling venue on a dreary day bringing cheer […]

25 DEC 1989: Christmas Day. We arise in Avery’s garret with fabulous hangovers after nearly two full hours of sleep. We fall downstairs to see one of the great messes of modern history on full display. It appeared that Santa had arrived with a full crew of Visigoths to have inflicted that much savage disorder. […]

Editor’s Note: I started the morning with a jolt. Sure it is Monday, and yes, the rains may make the bit of business I have over at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling a soggy pain, but I can always get dry. My pal JoeMaz sent along an article from Congressional Quarterly’s 
May 9, 2016 issue called “2017 […]

The National Steeplechase Association has sponsored the Virginia Gold Cup at Great Meadow, a marvelous course located at The Plains, Virginia. This was the 91st running- not that most people were watching the ponies- they were too busy looking at one another. There was a lot to see. The Gold Cup is mostly fashion show […]

I was going to do something different today- had drinks with the actual, physical Lutt-man you have been reading about. Jon-Without showed up, since we broke with tradition and ventured to one of the sites on the Bucket List, since Lutt-man was staying down by Union Station for a conference and the famed Dubliner Bar […]

Editor’s note: I had dug out the following account of my first visit to Cannes, the jewel-like city on the Cote d’Azure and my first encounter with the vivacious and extraordinary Maitre Avery Glize-Kane. She is one of those women who captivates at first meeting, and stays with you in memory the rest of your […]

04 May 2016 Editor’s Note: If you think you are going to get incisive commentary on what happened last night when I was getting the coffeemaker set up for the morning ritual, that amazing concession and the realization of what it is likely to be like for the next six months, you are not going […]

02 DEC 1989: Day dawned raw and gray and blowing with 8-10ft seas; not that I could really see them. Had to watch it on the PLAT monitor. The announcement ran all day: “All hands remain clear of weather decks and sponsons due to high winds and heavy seas.” We had an aggressive flight program […]

OK, I know we are bouncing around a little bit, like on the waves during the Salt Water Summit, the one where the General Secretary of the Communist Part of the USSR decided that it was all about over, and he needed to salvage what he could out of the wreckage. President George H.W. Bush […]

“May Day” all over today. Not a peep out of the Soviets. Oh, wait, I know. But back in 1989 it was not so quiet…. Giant Snake Burrowing Rockets (1989 image of the Kirov-class Battlecruiser deployed to the med). 13 DEC: The nightmare begins again. I don’t know quite how to put this, but each […]