At Sullie's Place

The following is a reprint of part of the year-end family xmas letter in 2009 about a family trip: Washington D.C. is a place that you need to spend plenty of time.  First on the agenda was the National Mall and the White House.  The prez owes me a favor and I went to collect, but he wasn’t home at the time.  He may have heard that I was in town and slipped out the back way.  Can’t compete with helicopters and the Secret Service, so we headed to the Mall.  There were 3 must seers and that was the Smithsonian Institute, Arlington National Cemetery and The Wall.  I was prepared for them, or so I thought.  We got a kick out of the Smithsonian since we had seen the movie, “Night At The Museum” and Trish and I were entranced at Arlington.  We toured the Lee Mansion, but the main objective was the JFK gravesite with the eternal flame.  Had we been there the day after, we would not have gotten near the place as the Kennedy family was there for Teddy...

There is nothing remotely familiar between then and now.  It’s not just politics, if only.  No, it’s life in general.  It would be so expected of me to point to our political scene as the reason for my disenchantment as there is no end to the daily diatribe of dictum.  My sweetie tells me that I need to stop perusing the internet as it only makes me melancholy and I ultimately end up with a case of the collywobbles.  Then again, a shot of whiskey can do that on an empty stomach, which would be better, as I have no control over the News. So, you are probably wondering, where have I been?  There you all were, receiving these daily doses of diction and all of a sudden…….phwet!  Where have the months gone?  My goodness, how time flies when the country is in such peril.  We are into our 3rd year of the pandemic scourge of the century and still stifled with the other pandemic as the Trumpublicans are still being, well, Trumpublicans.  There se...