Here at Tango Charley Juliet, about to breakfast with the greats and near-greats of Tax Court law and practice, I haven’t been “smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo,” as Lew (“He Spelled It Right”) DeWitt wrote at just about the same time I was admitted to the Bar of Our Fair State.

It’s been a deck of Fifty-One indeed. Today is the fifty-first anniversary of that admission. Fifty-one years of a wonderful ride.

And no ride is worthwhile that hasn’t some hairpin turns, gut-wrenchers and near-crashes.

More to follow, if time permits.