SERMON OF THE DAY A pessimistic view of Future Things is necessarily a defensive tactic. Far better is the notion of offense, no matter in...

      Some tough living going on  under those meandering clouds all over 'this fair land'' these days. Escape is mandatory any w...

  Always a pleasure to see bright colors in a vast green space (slight exaggeration of the adjectives here) and this year is/was no exceptio...

                   May is New York's spring. By contrast, April does better in Washington DC than it does with May, which is when early ...

 Just thinking, while  the weather changes lives -  dramatically from day to day:          So much of what happens in DC is out of sight and...

       Take hope when you can - when you can see tulips and other brave floral shoots pushing upwards against the tide of change. Pre-spring...

  Politics makes and breaks, especially in the fraught days of a new and bewildering government scene. So there may be little to do but stan...