Maggie's Farm

Sipp is very fond of John Singer Sargent. So are we.

Portrait is his Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881).

Ah, for the days when a gent could don his at-home robe or smoking jacket after work and on weekends. Chair by the fire, glass of Scotch or brandy, nice Habana ceegar, book or the internet, kids in the kitchen or upstairs or wherever being very quiet because "Your Father is at home." No treadmill exercise, no weight-lifting, no driving kids to summer hockey practice, no running to the dry cleaner or to Home Depot.

Diapers? Are you kidding? What is "yard work"?

Today, a gent's work never ends no matter how wealthy. The wives have taken over, and the modern wife ain't got no respect. But she might show some, if you dressed like Dr. P.

Fathers are half-emasculated these days, unlike the diabolical Dr. Pozzi.