Amanda was very stern with us this morning. It fit the skies, which had retreated from severe dark booming and bright flashes of lightning to a more gentle but persistent rainfall. The Chairman was in an agitated state over the annual chimney cleaning, a necessary job in the country, but the idea of workmen on […]

(You must look down to the right to see our Ruby Throat. Capturing this image required phone and constant attention- and eight attempts. Photo Socotra). There was controversy that started before the normal Production Meeting of the Writer’s Section of Socotra House LLC this morning. As you may have gathered, Management is under pressure in […]

(The 22-Story House of Soviets in Kaliningrad, formerly Konigsberg) The Very Small Group at the Writer’s Circle did not immediately gravitate to the Fire Ring down the slope from the Bunk House on this first day of Piedmont Summer. The Ring is now unlikely to be used for a few months as the Piedmont’s soggy […]

Bill Reddig- the fellow we called Dad- did his version of the electric car back in the mid-1950s as a stylist at American Motors. The thoughts about what were to come in this amazing world were around then, and AMC’s Chief of Design, Mr. Ed Anderson, had the idea that what was coming should look […]

We are almost free for a little while. The 4th of July is coming up on Monday, and Washington is clearing out to get back to crucial District events and fireworks more limited in scope than in the Swamp to our north. There was one here in town before the break. We checked with our […]

He was back this magical morning. We don’t know about the precise identity of our avian friend, the large graceful shape with dark body plumage and the elegant white trailing feathers on the broad, strong wings. It seems bigger than the hawks we see, stronger and more martial in appearance than our baleful buzzards who […]