It is a cloudless and brilliant Piedmont morning. There is a sparkle of life renewing out over the pastures. There had been a note on the production schedule to do a little history on the current fight about replacing a nice equestrian property south Virginia’s Route 3 with a sprawling data-center complex to serve the […]

(A variety of depictions of the Scientific Method. The old one. We have a newer one based on Sciency sounding things that makes us feel better). Refuge Farm was in a bit of a turmoil on a lovely morning. We haveall heard a lot about Science over the last two years that has wrenched our […]

Thank Goodness Marlow came up with something this morning for the first of this new month. He talked about Grandparents and birthdays. We were left with ‘fools.’ There had been some glances at the night cap last night before surrendering the Month of March to the gentle embrace of the Piedmont darkness and the imminent […]

(POWs return, 1973, Midway flight deck, Delegation at the Caravel Hotel, Saigon, military relics of an old war, and the gates to the former US Embassy). Morning, Folks! There is a lot going on and many tugs on memory in all sorts of directions. By separate correspondence, Marlow is in with a story we will […]

It was an interesting week and we are only at the Camel Day hump! There are reports that Peace may be on the verge of breaking out in Ukraine. Socotra House no longer has access to classified information, though, and we have to rely on the opposing narrative lines in the propaganda end of the […]

Gentle Readers, The American Battlefield Trust has joined the battle in which I enlisted several years ago to attempt to preserve some of the landscapes that framed the struggles of our Revolution and Civil War. We were successful in purchasing a McMansion sited on the top of the hill in the center of the Battle […]

“Good morning, Gentle Readers. I am Amanda, the quiet one they complain about here. The Writer’s Circle is reluctant to go outside this morning, since at first light under a sliver moon and the brilliant light of Venus it is sixteen degrees by the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm. The Person in Red on the […]