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Do you get the reference? My title is a play on Norman Mailer’s once famous title phrase, “Armies of the Night”. No? Yeah, not surprising. Sheeee-uh, 1968 is a looomg time ago now. ”Normies”, short for Normals, is a disparaging term now, as used online ( on the Internet, or ‘Net). It means a person … Continue reading Normies of the ‘Net →

When I woke up this morning, the roof of our barn was white. Not a lot of snow, just what I call “snizzling”, a snow drizzle, maybe 3 inches. At about 1 PM I went out cross-country skiing. I unzipped my coat, it wasn’t very cold. . The snow was coming down, but kinda big … Continue reading The Blizzard of 2026 →

Probably you have, everybody knows what the “Gibson girl” looks like….or maybe not, any more. Even if they know her image they may not know her creator. She’s now like Betty Boop, or Olive Oyl, recognizable as something you’ve seen before. Today in the attic of what had been my grandparents’ apartment I found an … Continue reading Have You Met C.D. Gibson? →

The great snowstorm of January 25 brought us over 2 feet of snow, and it hasn’t gone anywhere, because the weather only got colder. Today we are under an “Extreme Cold Warning”. It was -4 F all day, the wind came up and blew deep drifts over our lane. Tonight the windchill will feel like … Continue reading In the Arms of Lord Frost →

So this week we heard that a “Chinese bio-lab” was discovered in Las Vegas. They were working on ways to infect mice with Covid. (a brilliant idea, tried ‘n true: rodents, you’ll remember, were the vectors of the Black Plague 7 centuries ago). The news reports were very scant, as if this news is a … Continue reading Chinks in our Armor →

With profound humility and gratitude, I want to tell you about a conversation with my daughter yesterday. When she called yesterday I mentioned that I’m frantic about a zoning hearing I’m doing tomorrow. I’m on my own with it, not doing it through my office, really as a favor and to right an injustice. So … Continue reading Her Children Shall Arise Up and Call Her Blesséd →

We looked out of our window this morning to see a big flock of wild turkeys massing in front of our barn. It’s not unusual to see them in the woods, or even to have to stop the car for on or two of them them on the lane . But an entire “rafter”? (That’s … Continue reading Safety in Numbers? →