The “Wimmin!” were at the New Stanley Hottel, delivered by the former East Africa Rail from Mombasa.Which led to the stories contained in the current book project;THE WORDS ON THE BACK FLAP SUM UP THE PROJECT, LIVED BY:AND SOME OF THEIR PALS…While doing this:While living this:And ‘This.’ This is Snidely Whiplash, one of the best […]

Miles was in a mixed mood. He had a little box that contained an ancient manila box. It held a small notebook, pocket sized, and a few cartoons scrawled with ink and marking papers. “I assigned Snidely Whiplash to go through some of the old files from the locker in the Conference Room and try […]

Happy Birthday, USN. Above, USS Constitution earns her call-sign as “Old Ironsides” in her battle against HMS Guerrier n 1812. There is some dispute abut who was operating on the high seas on this day some 250 years ago, but we will render this tribute to those who have served on the waves since before […]

Korea has always had a tug on my spirit. Maybe it goes back to my fourteen-month assignment in what had, originally, been the steam bath for Japanese Forces assigned to occupy the ancient capital of a unified nation. We looked at the frontier a couple dozen miles to the North, and the irksome antics of […]

That picture is the way part of the Jewish Museum in Washington used to look. It was fifteen minutes across town, and is about the way it looked the last time we saw it in person. The majority of it, in fact, before Lillian and Albert Small made a commitment to move the original synagogue […]

Morning, Shipmates! Busy morning coming up here at The Trillium, although not as busy as Fleet Week up in New York! The run up to our Memorial Day explains why the Mexican Navy’s Tall Ship Cuauhtémoc, was in New York and the tragic crash into the Brooklyn Bridge last Sunday, resulting in two fatalities and […]

The word about Truman’s entry to the Med came in through the dozen or so addressees in the Old Salt Collective distro. The Salts are as tough a lot as I have been privileged to know in this world, and their grizzle was earned in brilliant day and dusky night out on the World Ocean. […]