DeMille is the leader of the Writer’s Section at Socotra House mostly through default. Everyone else is too lazy. By training, he is an engineer with a specialty on safe reactor operations. It is harder for him to let go the basic organizational skills than it is for the rest of us. For example, while […]

So, that is what the Writer’s Section under close supervision by our Attorney Amanda decided was a capture of the week’s news. You will notice what is not “in the news.” Oh, wait. Of course you wouldn’t notice! We have been trying to follow fellow scribe Marlow’s advice from his Coastal Empire. “Get cleaned up […]

Morning, Folks! We are going to defer to Amanda this morning. We had a hurried meeting this morning out by the Fire Ring before we made our pitch to her for preliminary approval to get to production. Her Legal Shop is not imposing censorship, she tells us. That is something the Chairman is concerned about. […]

The car in the picture wasn’t mine. Dad worked for American Motors, and we didn’t produce muscle. Our best try was the 343 Javelin, though the AMX could raise an eyebrow coming off the light changing to “green.” Under George Romney, the man who hired Dad to sculpt sensible designs of reasonable automobiles that could […]

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 […]