Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Milk Signaling

Author’s Note: We Remember fondly those multiple gallon Borden milk deliveries. We ate so well. – Marlow Re these protests . . . . All about us are familiar faces Worn spaces, weary faces Bright and early for their daily paces Going nowhere, going nowhere Tears no longer moisten our coke bottle thick glasses No […]

Too Big to Fail…Again!

(This is one of our old signs from around 2008. It is starting to fail around the edges, but we have a new Good Idea on how to fix it so we can use it again for the next big emergency. Our last great idea seems to be failing, so we are drafting the language […]

Life & Island Times: Old Age Shuffle

Editor’s Note: Marlow contributed one this morning that rocked us back. It was one of his song lyrics, old memory and new colliding. Problem was the graphic insert, very short memory clip of a senior citizen doing some dramatic tap-shoe moves. It is quite effective, but the only means to get it over to .html […]

Life & Island Times: Yellowstone

My Leonard piece earlier this week engendered a multi-day email back and forth with one of my longest tenured motorcycling brothers about the relative ranks of the roads, places, times, and peoples we’ve met over the years on the road together. Those included many, many tens of thousands of miles, half dozen countries, 50+ national […]

Life & Island Times: Songs to live — and die — for

Author’s Note: An update for your eyes. -Marlow Been livin under the soft glow of Savannah lights and its boutique hotels And, away from old streetlamps dwells a southern mademoiselle Well, it takes victims to the river where it casts its spell And, under the empire moonlight it sings a song so well If you’ll […]

Weather Report: A Fine Kettle of…

The new inflation numbers are out this morning and higher than expected. It is only a decimal point number, and not advantageous to those in power, so we expect not to hear much about it. “Worst in 40 Years!” didn’t get much play last week. We are on edge due to the looming election. We […]

Downsizing and the Crumbs

So the crumbs showed up yesterday in the downsizing effort at The Farm. Many were unseen for several years. There was the Marylin Monroe collection, all sorts of gimcracks and gee-jaws.There was enough of her to sequester in her own stack down in the garage to help the estate auction team when they arrive at […]

Life & Island Times: Leonard

Editor’s Note: Marlow’s piece this morning hit some issues from yesterday dead on. At Refuge Farm, we were downsizing. We apportioned piles of furniture, old art and memories to their destination stacks: “Auction,” “Kids,” “All that Military Stuff.” It was both fun and wrenching seeing things our great-grandparents made and held important. Positively wrenching, in […]