The New Look for a venerable organization began at the Spring Red Tie Reunion meeting at the ANCC Arlington campus. The new clubhouse is an elegant venue, and totally appropriate for the new look that Chairman Bob Murrett and President Norm Hayes envision. The Arlington venue permitted greater than normal participation by the uniformed contingent […]

  (The May Day demonstration against the War in 1971 was billed as the “largest civil disobedience action” in American history. It is regrettably forgotten in the tumult of the end of the astonishing decade of the 1960s. There may be something else going on these days.) It was asses-and-elbows trying to get out of […]

(This might have been the best darn chocolate-cocoanut-nut and wonderfulness cake I have ever tasted. Kate Jansen’s baking is unreal at Willow). This week was a blur- it started at the Broadmoor in The Springs and culminated with Buffalo Nite, via the Big Pink Finance Committee and Spring Red Tie Luncheon with the Professionals. Buffalo […]

(This isn’t mine- I have no idea where the one I had framed wound up. Perhaps it is in that stack of art I will never look at again in the office off the garage at Refuge Farm. I hope the mice treat it with due respect.) Mission Statement from Commander Salamander: “PROACTIVELY “FROM THE […]

(I could not remember the name of this conference room in the South Building of the resort to save my life until I got serious this morning). I am blinking at the breakfast table. I appear to be in Arlington again and I am not sure exactly why. The radio tells me there is wreckage […]

I am looking out the window of a nice room in a nice hotel in Colorado. I am hacked off. partly in panic and partly in despair. The ducks and the swans on the pond seem unaffected. The mountains are stoic, and the white puffs of clouds drifting across the peaks aloof. I opened the […]

I think I am going to go to the airport- I am not sure which one yet- and take a flight some place. I am done with the resurgent cold. My pals up in Michigan just made the record for snow accumulation, and to cap it all off, they lost power in much of the […]

Ah, the running life! My brother Spike is headed for Boston tomorrow to run the Marathon, his second, I think. I am very proud of him. I was pretty cocky about having completed seven of the 26.2 endurance contests, but while he started his marathon career later than I did, his accomplishments quickly eclipsed my […]

The Blood Moon could have been a great symbol for something or other. Regrettably, the vestiges of the Polar Vortex weather pattern that kicked our ass so thoroughly through the course of the last unlamented winter are back. I peered out the window at 0215 last night- having cleverly set my alarm to document the […]

“They are coming out of the woodwork, aren’t they?” is what Mattski said when he came over to borrow the Turf Tiger to assault the first cutting of the year on the pastures. You have to stay on top of these things in the country. It has been wet, and the end of the cooler […]