Down and Dirty The news this morning is cautionary and brisk. Spring Training for Big League Baseball kicked off in Florida and the Southwest, and the photos were taken for bubble-gum cards. There is a furor over Human Growth Hormone use by some of the stars. I don’t believe a word of it. Just because […]

Gravity The plants stayed outside again last night. It is March. They may need some toughening up, like Marine recruits. It is going to be a hot summer. The weekend is over. The move is done, as is the Academy Awards, which I missed altogether. They have a five second delay this year, sparked by […]

The Process If we can just get out of this month, things will be fine. Not long to go. But it was not a good day, yesterday, and this being alone sucks. That was part of it. There was more. I got a call in the evening at home, telling me the meeting that had […]

Cannibal Armee Haiti is shaped like the claw of a lobster about to snap on its prey. Two long peninsulas stretch out toward Cuba and a great Bay lies between them. To the right is the jagged border that divides the island of Hispaneola into Haiti on the West, and the Dominican Republic on the […]

Fat Tuzeday The Rebels have Cap Haitian, and they are puzzling through the plans for the thirty-third government of Haiti, once the Pearl of the Carribbean. It is also the last day of the big party prior to Lent, Fat Tuesday. But of course we do things differently now. There is no Lent, any more […]

Normally I get up with great discipline to read and write in an iterative manner manner, consulting with the Overseas radio and the New York Times. to you. I stayed up too late, as you know, but arose right on time at 0442. I ground the coffee and turned on the switch, thinking I might […]

I am starting off slow this morning. The New York Times e-version did not show up in my inbox , and although I have been up for more than an hour already, I have accomplished precisely nothing. I had a glitch copying files from my archive to the hard drive on the new computer. Between […]

Senator Kerry has won the Wisconsin Primary, though apparently cross-over Republicans gave Senator John Edwards a strong second place. Howard Dean’s last stand came in a distant third. He refuses to give up, or so he says publicly.  Edwards was only 6% back, which is either a win or another loss. I will have to […]

The affairs of humankind turn on ponderous hinges. We are a disorganized lot, and fate has a lot of inertia. Mine did this morning. I awoke to the knowledge that the three-day weekend commemorating the Dead Presidents was over, and the mind-numbing series of meetings on the new contract were going to begin in a […]

I slept late because the sun does not beat down on the windows here in the Sea-Cabin as it does in the Route 50 side of Big Pink. I have taken to calling the Sea Cabin because it is as small as a stateroom on a warship, and I look out on the swimming pool. […]