UVA v. Duke. In a couple hours, the erudite scholars from the bucolic environs of Charlottesville, located in the Old Dominion, home of the oldest continuous representative democracy in the World, will travel to the ...
The best day of 2019 is when you find your 30 year old favorite sweatshirt that had been lost for 5 years. I feel like the father of the Prodigal Son, I am so happy. ...
I would like to thank the Episcopal Church.I have done my share of whiskey drinking, skirt chasing, property destruction and running my big mouth. There are police reports with my name on them from Nantucket ...
In light of my posts yesterday on natural law, my brother Fat Wally Smith, sent me this article which cites George Washington’s thoughts on what virtues are indispensable to a free, self- governing people. Fat ...
MARSTON SMITH My old man would be 96 years old today. He died 30 years ago. I never really mourned his death because, frankly, I’ve always felt his presence. I can’t see him, but he ...
Raising a glass to Mr. Chichester, a delightful gentleman whose company I enjoyed many times….. OBIT
Listening to the lessons in church this morning, I realized that I need to let go of a deep, dark secret that I have been harboring in my heart for nearly 40 years. It is ...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS ARRIVED! The best time of the year! #virginiafootball #friedchicken #acc #sec #soccerisunamerican #thecommonwealth #america #bourbon
This Month’s Strappin Hoss Award goes to my buddy, that Venerable Vicar, the Very Right and Hosslike Reverend, that Muscular Man of the Cloth, Dr. David Mark Cooper ( deafening cheers and applause). Mark recently finished the ...