Author: Vic Socotra

Weather Report: Changing People’s Lives!

So, it was the Weekly Forecast meeting at the Fire Ring. It was a delicate one, since we are committed to good order and a certain amount of discipline while under the watchful eye of our attorney. Her role is keeping us out of trouble. Our commitment is to avoid all the partisan fury swirling […]

Amending Prohibition

There is a fair amount of confused excitement out here in the Country. In fact, there is enough of it that Amanda, our watch-Attorney, was moved to get on the Chairman’s calendar to seek some relief. Apparently some of his Writer’s Section, attempting to bridge the wide gap in coverage, have been getting information from […]

Arrias: A Crises When Needed

The idea of using a crisis to make decisions that would otherwise never be allowed is not new. Kings and pharaohs and emperors of all stripes have been doing such things for millennia. Some have gone so far as to generate crises in order to provide the opportunity to “solve the crisis” and in solving […]

“Voyage to the CROSSROADS” Goes Live!

Gentle Readers, There is some real excitement at Refuge Farm on this bright new week! A new book has been issued from Socotra House LLC! It is one that encompasses a real and poignant sea story coupled with the awful consequences of Atomic Age technology. It came to us in a curious manner, and it […]

Life & Island Times: Savannah Trains of Thought

When I stop for a train at an in-town Savannah RR crossing near our home, I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering, those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up slowly rolling by, and I get quiet inside. I get what other men get from other things. I […]

Country Comforts

There was a controversy that started when some of us were awake. It involved concerts held in the early 1970s, or events in a sea of the miasma of a half century of active life. There was a memory of a fellow named Rod Stewart, whose face framed with famous unruly hair appeared in the […]

Thoughts, Well Wishes, Cards and Calls!

Dear Gentle Readers, The Fire Ring is damp this morning and the Usual Suspects instead gathered in the Bunk House for fresh and richly brewed Chock Full o’ Nuts and idle banter. Splash provided one of the “Letters to the Editor” from the Coffee Company, which protested our misspelling a week or more ago, and […]

Weather Report: Working Together!

We have to do the Weather Report this week, and it looks a bit like the local forecast for last night. Maybe Thunderstorms, according to the Lady in Red on the flatscreen. She was taking about local weather in Washington, which we are supposed to believe is something universal, and ‘Maybe’ it is. There are […]