The Big Freaking Week is now safely retired to the annals of history. Or, actually muddled in the grinding of the massive plate tectonics on which we ride to our personal dissolution amid one much larger. And eternal. And so we start the first working week of Fall, with the Middle of the Week […]

  OK. You bought the air fryer when they told Miles the fih daily, ;\please?re in the Galley was going to lead either to shutting the place down or finding something that avoided using large Lodge skillets filled with an inch of fiery oil that otherwise well-intended people could cascade into minor localized flames. Accordingly, […]

Deirdre’s note: I am not going to clutter this page with another recipe card for Rocket’s chili. Anyone who has spent time around the Galley since the COVID nonsense knows the drill. Check the basement freezer for two-pound blocks of ground beef. Move a couple to the refrigerator to thaw. Make sure there are yellow […]

  Signaling Our Collective Virtue! That was Friday, and Saturday the Nor’Easter swept in, hitting New England and washing us in the backwash in Washington only now needed east and away. It was a Big Week, one that marked a capstone to a Big Summer in a very Big Year. Copyright 2026 Vic Socotra www.vicsocotra.com

Deirdre’s Dynamite Wedge We got complaints from the Crowd. After a week of pomp and drama, with heads of state gathering in New York and Washington alongside global officials and mysterious financiers, people wanted a meal they could sit down and eat. Much of what happened behind the pageantry remains out of view. What we […]

  This was the Big Deal in a Big Week as the spotlights wheeled southwest from Manhattan to arrive at the East Room of the White House. The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is what provided the venue for most UN member states to send senior delegations to the event. Aside […]

  Editors Note: According to the METOC Weather Guessers, we are officially in Fall. We thought a quick note on Greenland would be useful, since it won’t be sporting anything except white and some soot from jet engines until Spring! What a week! Greenland This was not intended to be a summary of the disparate […]

The component parts of the Big Week are coming into somewhat sharper focus, now that some of the jet exhaust has blown away in the big Nor’easter along the coast. We’re ready to settle down and see what may have happened with the two major conflicts still simmering. One of the Big Moments in the […]

  A Big Day …In a Very Big Week! The massive storm that soaked the nation has almost passed. East Coast residents are still advised to keep an eye on the sky. We’re seeing sunlight in Fairfax for the first time in over three days. We are hoping for a runnier if slightly smaller week […]

HI! There was more unfolding in this Big Week of local, state, national and international issues of common concern. We gathered in the Conference Room for Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks this morning to Manhattan at the UNCA and marveled as a substantial contingent of the diplomats exited the chamber before the state of Israel rose to […]