Today is Leap Day, an unusual date on our calendar. Here are a few other unusual things that occurred yesterday that made me ponder cosmic alignments this day. Caps lose. Whoa. That doesn’t happen often. Is it the playoffs already? … Continue reading
You’ll remember a few months ago I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon in Frederick, Maryland, seeing some legit minor league baseball with an affable group of baseball devotees (see post of August 3, 2015). I was more or … Continue reading
Last night my local school board—they’re also my employer—voted to cancel school next Tuesday. That’s Presidential Primary Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Can’t have the kids in school with all those angry Trump voters roaming the halls! Don’t get … Continue reading
With victories now in consecutive state primaries, it seems Donald Trump should cruise to the Republican nomination for President. (I should probably have picked another word than “cruise.”) Much depends, of course, on next Tuesday’s “SEC” primary, which includes not … Continue reading
Robins, larks, groundhogs, the Easter bunny… nothing says Spring quite like those four arousing words: pitchers and catchers report. It begins. … Continue reading
The “most highly anticipated issue of Playboy in our history” has been on newsstands for nearly a week now, and damned if I haven’t heard a thing about it. If a fully-clothed woman falls in a magazine, does it make … Continue reading
Snowed in with no school and nothing to do until 10:00 tonight. Commence Better Call Saul Season One marathon! I think if I start now I’ll be caught up by tonight’s premiere. Life. Is. Good. … Continue reading
Ten score and seven years ago, in a one-room cabin most Americans are surprised to learn was actually in Kentucky, not Illinois, our nation’s sixteenth president was born. I’ve heard it said that Abe’s mother, who desperately wanted her son … Continue reading
A website called LoudounNow (loudounnow.com) this week has picked up the ongoing story featured in the previous Sunday’s “Loudoun” section of the Washington Post. These are laughable pieces describing so-called “economic development” that I thought I left behind when I … Continue reading
Secretly I hoped it would turn out this way. Didn’t want to jinx it, but yeah, I was hoping the Old Man-ning would get one more ring. Wasn’t the prettiest game I ever saw, but at least I got to … Continue reading