It is 36 degrees this morning. It did not slide back down into the twenties last night, and that is a good thing. That would have frozen the melt-water in slick sheets in between the ruts and the commute would have been a thrill. As it is, the banks continue to line the roadway imposingly, […]

It is the sound of slush flying from Route 50 below the balcony that I hear this morning. There is a rush hour, of sorts, since the Federal Behemoth has decided to slumber one more day, but there are people of commerce who are headed in to try to salvage something out of the retail […]

It was Valentines Day yesterday, and I made it. But I thought about love, and I thought about a misdirected e-mail I got last month, one of the vagaries of the double-click age. Actually I thought about it because I had to spend the better part of this snowy day rebuilding my operating system because […]

This morning North Korea announced that it could strike American targets anywhere on earth. Great way to start the morning. The Koreans obviously were watching the testimony of CIA Director George Tenet and DIA Director L. E. “Jake” Jacoby before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. The Television coverage was great. One of the Senators […]

There was another advisory this morning on the radio. The reader noted that there seemed to be an advisory every morning these days. This one dealt with snow squalls, high winds and plummeting temperatures. Some of the schools are closing. They say it might gust to 50-knots later on, which is good. Makes it hard […]

“What was the strange thing the dog did in the night?” “Why, nothing,” said Watson, puzzled. “Elementary,” responded Holmes, coolly. That is what the weather did Monday night. Nothing. Bob Ryan and Action 4 Doppler Radar blew the call. There was not an inch or two more fluffy white stuff on the ground, though the […]

Just like Bob Ryan told me last night on the Washington Weather, there is a pile of snow outside and a Winter Storm Warning in effect until one o’clock this afternoon. The flakes are moist and heavy on the balcony. It does not look like we got that much here in town, but they reportedly […]

It is a slow start this morning, not because I am moving slow, mind you. Quite the contrary. There is a lot of mopping up to be done and I am shoveling paper as fast as I can. There is a bushel basket of bills and magazines, nothing personal, of course, since that all comes […]

It is a frigid morning here in Washington. The dawn has not broken yet, and the half-moon is trying to penetrate the gray haze. It is Michigan weather visiting us here, pulling up a chair and wrapping us in cold embrace. It was in the single digits last night, and the wind chill is right […]

It is 18 degrees this morning morning, cold in a way that only a normally temperate climate can deliver. Penetrating. The 71st annual convocation of the American Conference of Mayors is happening today. They are meeting somewhere, didn’t catch where, but I expect it is someplace warm. Looking back up the centuries, Francis Bacon, Lord […]