Boxing The Compass

A Happy New Year to all.  I was honored to receive your well-wishes and blessings, and I want the same for all of you.  Ringing in the new y...

Winter Blues   Cleaned Belts*  Wool Defense Pub's Window-box *Once every 5 years, or as needed.

Each year, I make a Christmas Pie for dinner.  In the past, it was filled with duck or goose from a blind, game bird from a field, venison f...

I can't take credit for constructing this one... or even thinking it up for that matter. A Tuesday night cocktail party materialized ...

...were the least of his horrendously a**holish and horrifyingly cruel sins.  His "tailor" continually let out his waistband, wh...

Before a party, I stopped by the tailor to find a matching button for a pair of pants, and was reminded I "don't look good in bow t...

An old blown-out shirt and a frayed tie.  A few stitches with doubled thread.  Buttoned up.  A tie bow, not a bow tie. Brooks Brothers,...

A last stroll through the streets after closing up my temporary office.  Papers shredded and coffee pot scrubbed clean... a small hillock ...

...and other styles about which I will no doubt be corrected. After wrapping up business and the last portions (fragments for me) of the ...