First, let me tell you that I am not lazy. I am not lazy. Nor drunk, like the sailors in the image above. Not yet, anyway. I was up this morning in plenty of time to do all sorts of great stuff that you will not see, not because it isn’t endlessly fascinating, but because […]

(Final Jepordy question Monday involved my homeland. Screen shot from an alert reader in Ann Arbor.) What a day yesterday! It was filled with the remarkable, and the absurd- a perfect April Fools Day. Here is how nuts it was: I met someone who had a good experience with the Affordable Care Act! Stranger things […]

  (UCONN ties up the Spartans on the way to the Final Four. Picture USA Today) Fabulous day yesterday- I mean, they don’t get any better, do they? Oh, sure, the sky was gun-metal gray, the temperature stayed in the 40s, though the fresh breeze made it feel colder, and bands of rain continued to […]

  You don’t know what you got till it’s gone, they say. I guess that is true, but there is the corollary, of course. Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you actually look at it. I had a great morning with a Pal from up north- did the Clark Brothers stop and navigated […]

  Gentle Readers, I am a little short on time this morning, I am meeting a pal at Clarks this morning, 1000 sharp, on Route 29 south to the farm for an acquisition matter, and need to get my butt in gear. There is so much to talk about this morning that I became quite […]

There is an air of desperation in the Nation’s capital, and it has nothing to do with the thick gray skies and the persistent chill rain and the stubborn refusal of the temperature to climb out of the fifties. The miasma of charge and counter-charge is so thick that it is palpable, and I think […]

(The NATO logo and the flags of its member states.) So, this awful month is finally coming to an end. There were record low temperatures this morning, the major airports in the 20s under partly cloudy skies. They tell us the winds will back around to the south, and the gentle breezes will bring the […]

(ADM Bobby Ray Inman, USN. Naval Intelligence legend, he was the first intelligence specialist to ever make four stars. His national career went from Director of Naval Intelligence, to Director of the National Security Agency, and retired as an Admiral as Deputy DCI on my birthday in 1982. Photo CIA). OK- black ice out there […]

    (Jon-without is surprised by new technology. Vic indicates “thumbs up.” Photo by Jamie.) All righty, then. The month that comes in like a lion refuses to turn into a lamb and continues to growl at us. At the moment there is a blizzard in progress outside the window of the unit at Big […]

It was raw and gray and chill yesterday, snow in the forecast for this week, so a good day to light a fire, put on the basketball madness in the background and churn through the yellow trays of 35mm slides. The pictures project has gone in fits and spurts. Dad- Raven in his later years- […]