Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Corona readin’ writin’ figurin’

la mejor enfermedad la enfermedad importada de China Naming your price in the beginning was always good advice when it came to one’s life work, but we scribblers do it for free. Compensation comes in the sharing. If it ever gets more lucrative than the price we settled for initially, beware. Check six. I just […]

Buck Moon

A genuinely pretty day emerged from the bright sub-70 Piedmont dawn. The dew point is creeping up. It is a nice summer day, despite all the rest of the alleged news. We started this morning with continued reports on the Chinese real estate market. Some say it is a product of generational change and long-standing […]

Life & Island Times: Exploring

Editor’s Note: Marlow takes us on another adventure in his Coastal Empire. Here at Refuge Farm, we are having our own version, featuring rolling encounters with exciting elements of America’s health care system. This morning’s edition featured finding the right place to deposit two vials of rich red fluid drawn from a willing arm. That […]

Life & Island Times: Savannah Lions

I grew up, luckily, as a sailor, with only a distant offshore relationship with land war and soldiering. As my DNA gifted preordained me to sinking in water, I learned how to swim at an early age. That life skill proved very worthwhile when I first jumped in the darkwater pool that I came to […]

A Call of Memory

Gentle Readers, On 09 July, 2022, Kimo Fanell and I had a chance to give a presentation to the Docents and volunteers who support one of America’s national treasures- the museum ship USS Midway (CV-41). It is an emotional memorial to those who served within her gracious steel embrace across the World Ocean, and stands […]

Weather Report: Food Outlook

It is hard to get adjusted to this tempo. We have been covering the Russian “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine for months now, and have gotten the weekly summary down to “Russia Grinds ON,” and “Ukraine gets something long range.” This morning, we thought we would get you a quick update on one of the […]

Life & Island Times: Speak(ing)easy of Savannah

Author’s Note: Loosely continuing on from my previous piece, I offer more disjointed impressions . . . – Marlow The outside world seems to be saying while we as individuals do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. In other […]

Velvet Elvis

We are in a bit of a crisis that has rolled gently over the Fire Ring. We have a book project that has rolled through the creative process, editing, production and distribution. It was satisfying, since the story was one we had promised to tell a very long time ago, and with the war that […]

Life & Island Times: First

Editor’s Note: Marlow starts us off on several tales of wonder involving his experience in The Coastal Empire. It is a place that can draw you right in. – Vic First Savannah’s River Street in the 1970s Savannah’s River Street 2022 During my first visit to the Empire almost 50 years ago, the big empty […]