I was the first one in the office yesterday. I waved my pass at the keypad next to the door and it popped open. I walked in precisely at seven, late by Pentagon standards, and walked back and opened my office and fired up the computer. There is no burn bag under my desk, since […]

I am up this morning early and at the keyboard just after 0530. I will not have the time to do a Socotra piece, but I can write a little as I listen to the cascade of the world’s events. Saddam is at his consumate best today, destroying a few missiles and digging up some […]

The North Koreans have started up their bomb factory, says Bob Edwards on the radio, and the number of US troops in the Gulf topped 200,000 yesterday, and Saddam’s folks have sent a letter to the UN saying they might consider destroying the Al Samoud rockets. The Security Council is agog. Here in Washington we […]

It is cold outside, twenties, and there is a dusting of snow coming down. It dances on the roadways, all the salt washed off by the rains and the big melt over the weekend. There is a winter storm warning in effect. It is likely to be a thrilling commute and I am planning my […]

I am running late already, not because I overslept, but because of the depth and texture to everything that is happening. My brain soaks it up like a sponge. It is supposed to snow the rest of the week. More snow. The Commonwealth has spent the snow removal budget through 2015 already. This global warming […]

It is early Saturday and I am working through the blear. I successfully mastered the coffee-pots operating system (“ON”) and was preparing to throw down a couple Cavalettis for breakfast. I was thinking about a woman I know and wondering about the future. I am playing on the keyboard, not writing seriously, at least not […]

Oh, the world seems stale this morning. Maybe its me, maybe it is the disorientation of a week under snow. But it seems the news is sliced from the heel of the loaf and is as fresh as the forlorn gray snow still packed on the lifeless cars emerging from the drifts in the apartment […]

It is 36 degrees this morning. It did not slide back down into the twenties last night, and that is a good thing. That would have frozen the melt-water in slick sheets in between the ruts and the commute would have been a thrill. As it is, the banks continue to line the roadway imposingly, […]

It is the sound of slush flying from Route 50 below the balcony that I hear this morning. There is a rush hour, of sorts, since the Federal Behemoth has decided to slumber one more day, but there are people of commerce who are headed in to try to salvage something out of the retail […]

It was Valentines Day yesterday, and I made it. But I thought about love, and I thought about a misdirected e-mail I got last month, one of the vagaries of the double-click age. Actually I thought about it because I had to spend the better part of this snowy day rebuilding my operating system because […]