2018 – Page 11 – Vic Socotra

June 4, 2018 Vic Socotra

Arrias: The Roots of School Shootings

A few weeks ago, while discussing school violence, a really smart friend of mine made the observation that: “kids with spiritual cores aren’t the ones committing the school shootings.” Which led to some digging. So, first, some numbers. The first recorded school shooting was in 1764. Since then there’ve been quite a few, but definitions […]

May 30, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Notes From Beyond the Planet of the Apps: Making Lists

We didn’t want to bug out to an out-of-the-way rock outcropping with too few of the things we needed since we snatched them up at the last moment from the house and from local stores. The best thing we could do we decided was to plan and pack carefully for a new life in the […]

May 30, 2018 Vic Socotra

Postcard from the Swamp #40

I will not insult your intelligence by saying that we are doing fine. I do not think you would disagree, but there are so many things that appear to be simple on which we can’t. I can’t even due justice to the current news cycle, much less haul the main brace of what might be […]

May 28, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Notes From Beyond The Planet of the Apps 2028

Notes From Beyond The Planet of the Apps 2028: Road Revisit (summer 2016) Coastal Empire California Route 46 in Paso Robles region W, her son and I rode motorcycles through Silicon Valley and Monterey today en route the boy’s 33rd birthday celebration in Vegas. The valley is where, almost forty years earlier while at a […]

May 28, 2018 Vic Socotra

Arrias: In Memory Of…

In Memory of… Memorial Day is a day dedicated to the remembrance of those who died for our country. Rightly, we spend (or we should) some time thinking about those we know, or know of, who did just that: went off to war in the service of our nation and were killed in that service. […]

May 27, 2018 Vic Socotra

Rio Grande

Waiting for the rain (again) and after a decent swim, am watching a re-run of the WWII film “The Longest Day.” It is Memorial Day weekend, and for a variety of perfectly good reasons, I thought I would check in to the time machine that lives behind the flat screen in the living room. I […]

May 26, 2018 Vic Socotra

Mission Accomplished.

Got up early. Well, not that early. It is The Day- Der Tag, as my German brethren- one of only two in the completely dependent on the clock, which this morning was slung on the Wall and displaying “4:45” though we pretty much knew we were closing in on ten, and the official opening of […]

May 26, 2018 Vic Socotra

Arrias: North Korea in the Age of Chamberlain

We’ve been living in the age of Neville Chamberlain. You remember Chamberlain, the fellow who (in 1938) negotiated away Czechoslovakia’s freedom so as to not upset Hitler. Let me explain. In a recent comedy-drama there’s a scene where one character tells the bad guy – with whom he is negotiating – what his first “bid” […]

May 25, 2018 Vic Socotra

Long May She Run

Do you still listen to Neil Young? I do, on the satellite radio in the Panzer, or at the fwrm where I can play the tunes as loud as I like. To use the phrase popular here in The Swamp these days, I am getting a little ahead of my skiis. Let me briefly recap […]

May 23, 2018 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Journal Page

Notes from Beyond the Planet of the Apps 2028: End of My Journal Days and Early Outland Christmases Journal Page If readers have been able to follow in some recognizable chronological order my essays based on my long ago journals, God bless ’em, since I have been long dead and unavailable to assist them putting […]

Year: 2018