So here we are. A major holiday is impending, one that used to be a bigger day than rotating what is appropriate to wear in what marked “winter” and “summer” clothing. Should the occasion arise, the Writer’s Section will drag the old seersucker out of the closet. Our Shipmate Marlow has some thoughts about Memorial […]

We were going to make the usual attempt at some commentary on the events of the week. There are several of significance. We did the research and were ready to present the developments in complex, evolving and potentially dangerous situations. They span the globe, across broad oceans from Ukraine to India. That effort was left […]

Doing the weekly forecast- the Weather Report- is normally fun with the crowd from the Writer’s Section at Refuge Farm. It includes a lot of banter about real truths that are no longer permitted for public release. Amanda is the company attorney, and she is just back from sequestration from one or more of the […]

(This fair-use non-commercial low-resolution screen-capture is from The Atlantic Magazine e-edition on an article regarding evangelical dissolution by Mr. Tim Alberta). Goodness, what a morning! Faithful correspondent Arrias weighed with with some considerations on the balance of nuclear terror on this vast but finite spinning world. It would be tempting to casually reach back into […]

(Nina Jankowitz official picture) It’s a new world, all right. Our panel of Fire Ring experts and hacks was naturally energized by a bunch of stuff. We are at swirl in the latest lunacy, some of it bringing up old mysteries in the swirl of a more recent one reaching its expiration date, and others […]

Summer is still three weeks away, but Virginia’s Piedmont has the moist rag of heat waving across us for the first taste of the season of warmth and perspiration to come. It was a bit of languor on the deck above the Fire Ring, a coolness of night still emanating from the siding, intermingling with […]

MapDescription automatically generated Locating: Otsego Ski Club was just east of town. West ten miles was the cabin on a little lake in the woods near tiny Elmira. Two miles to M-131 and north past Boyne Mountain, big-time Michigan skiing, and eventual to Petoskey, where Dad was Mayor pro tem and I thought I was […]

Some of the crowd around the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm were wearing shorts. The Lady in Red on the flatscreen in the bunk house had done an ominous turn in her weather reporting, saying that the relatively cool Spring was going to transition into a weekend with temperatures in the 90s. Splash was wearing […]

It was a glorious morning in Virginia’s Piedmont. There had been a full moon in a clear sky, one filled with celestial mystery. There was an argument of unusual intensity for the early morning as the circle around the Fire Ring discussed it. Some called the illumination in this burgeoning month of growth the “Flower […]

The Writer’s Section was scrambling this morning. The skies were bright, some of the humidity had passed with the rain clouds that swept up. The Weather Report we do for the Chairman needed some work to connect all the dots that don’t seem to actually point anywhere. There is still enormous concentration on the Special […]