Oxytocin I was out by the pool, shivering as I toweled off under the leaden sky. Peter, the owner-manager of the Deep Blue swimming empire, had ceased his occasional glances across the deep end to see if I was still afloat. His phone chirped periodically as other pools checked in, and schedules and time cards […]

Santa Esmerelda OK, so I blew it. I was tired from the week and should have gone down. I was pretty good about moving up my bedtime, and I had a resolution to do the same that night. There was a great movie on, the astonishingly violent Quentin Tarantino vehicle “Kill Bill, Volume 1.” I […]

I traveled through DC in the rain to meet up with Maria and Nick. It was a somber day to be on the broken concrete and there were the usual commuter miscues at every key juncture; but naturally, that is not the story. It took nearly two hours to drive across town. Google would tell […]

It is cool today, and rain is coming from the Midwest. There is driving to be done, and a long session in an airless vault to fulfill the annual requirement to be reminded that there is a significant counter-intelligence threat out there. A person with a sock-puppet on their hand could make it more interesting […]

Green and Gray I scooted out of the office a little early to beat the rush across the 14th Street Bridge. I managed to get there without much trouble, and drove to Ft. Myer, where I purchased a bouquet of red flowers. Then I drove around the perimeter of the cemetery to the public entrance, […]

Nine Eleven It is raining this morning, which is a fitting book-end to a lovely weekend. It is also That Anniversary, the one that is so problematic. It is good that this day is somber and gray. It fits the mood. The day itself was something else altogether. It might have started as one of […]

The End is Near The President is headed for New York, for the anniversary that hangs in the middle distance of everything. The docudrama that ABC has cooked up about the events that led to the mass murder has caused quite a stir. I was around some of the arguments when they happened- not the […]

I walked down Peachtree to Luckie, and the building loomed above me like a white yacht, bearing down at speed. The narrowness of its white flanks conveyed a sense of speed, or all its rooted entropy. I had seen this before, not this way, somewhere else. I was dumbstruck and had to stop and look. […]

Segue I was lost in �Lanta to start. I thought it was too easy getting to the great skyline, and how hard could it be to find the Peachtree hotel on Peachtree Street? Fools and their appointment s are soon parted, and I was from mine after I left the interstate for downtown Atlanta. It […]

Number Two for Departure The airplane was third for departure at Reagan National Airport. Fortunate, really, that the fog had not burned off sooner and the controllers were being cautious on separation for the departing jets that snake off above the Potomac River for noise abatement. Certain concessions in routing the airplanes over the capital […]