The contractors at the Agency on Monday morning scuttled like cockroaches when the kitchen light is switched on. Many had wheeled carts piled high with cardboard boxes filled with binders and tens of thousands of top-quality words promising to meet all the requirements of the Agency. I was one of them, of course, or I […]

It is another of those mornings that defines the New Normal. Lovely day for an early walk; the fading silver disk of the full moon hanging in a bluing sky. I was on foot early, since the electronic prompt on the dash of the Hubrismobile has been scolding me with the count-down to “A”-level service […]

I wrote the date and then I had to stop. Ten years, almost to the tick of the clock. I was not going to do this to you. I was going to write about the incredible victory under the lights at the Big House last night, but I cannot disrespect the people who died by […]

There is something in the air this morning. It is not rain, for a change. The skies have cleared and there should be an optimistic stride in our steps. The Big Pink pool is open, today and tomorrow; and again for the swan song next weekend. For good or for ill, the Big Proposal goes […]

(NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite took a stunning image of 4 tropical systems in the Atlantic on Sept. 8, 2011. Hurricane Katia in the western Atlantic; Tropical Storm Lee’s remnants are battering Arlington and Big Pink with a specific and credible amount of moisture; Tropical Storm Maria is well organized in the central Atlantic; and newborn Tropical […]

It rained and rained and rained. Five inches in Arlington; the District was saturated and the streets flooded. The storm had no name, and lasted longer than the last one that did- great greats of gray water that kept coming like the Monsoons that washed away Yongsan Garrison when I lived in Seoul. I had […]

Three o’clock, wide-awake. There was a bit of work unfolded next to the computer and it nagged at me in the darkness. I gave up and padded out to the balcony to see if it was still raining. I found myself in the cloud- the rain faint, the night air impenetrable and completely saturated. I […]

Funny how just a few hours can carry you over such a great chasm. I dripped into the unit at Big Pink just about one this morning, the sweetness of the victory tempered by the bone-deep chill from the dank pervasive rain. I shook the parka off the balcony and left it draped over an […]

I am completely behind now, and won’t get to the story at all this morning, not that there is much left of it. I wound up on perusing one of the climate pages and tumbled headlong into a vicious attack on Viscount Christopher Monckton’s views on the science pertaining to what has, sequentially, been known […]

I went down early last night- the combination of the Saturday at the office, the birthday party for the 89-year-old former Clandestine Agent, who looks like butter would not melt in her mouth, and the subsequent hour-long swim in the cool blue waters left me drained. I got up to the raucous Indy rock from […]