Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: End of the Line

Editor’s Note: Marlow lays it out, and it is still morning. The little pocket of writers in our backwaters, far from the tumult that made us and connects us forward and backward in swirling time. DeMille wanted to hold this for the big run-out of the story of all of us. Amanda the Attorney wanted […]

Here Comes the Judge

We had a rough start to the Tuesday Production Meeting. Monday was a busy day for her. One topic of interest had been covered by Arrias, who discussed where the conflict in Ukraine was likely to go, and it included a consideration of the real possibility of the use of WMD. Marlow then had an […]

Arrias: Nothing New In The East

The war in Ukraine has settled into a disquieting monotony: for those who have been following the war closely, the last few weeks seem like “nothing new”: each day Russian forces continue to slowly move into the East, small unit actions continue along most of the fronts, the siege of Mariupol continues, and the Russians […]

The Day of Returns

Arrias led off the production effort on this early Monday morning. Well, it was early, and had an informed discussion of the prospect of the use of atomic weapons. That went along with proofing the manuscript the Chairman has had in various ruck-sacks for about forty years. It was an old story about a sailor […]

Life & Island Times: Conversating Signs of Our Times

Author’s Note: This email should say at its bottom “Sent from my iPhone . . . after tapping it out while going 80MPH,” and that’d be true, but it required beaucoup laptop keyboarding corrections and editing to be legible. -Marlow April 18, 2022 Conversating Signs of Our Times W and I returned W’s mom to […]

Joy in a Time of Challenge

Here at Refuge Farm we celebrate a morning of Joy with a time of challenges. You know some of them, and we do not claim to know them all. We know that we have affirmed our faith in the glory of a universe in which we hurtle through the void on a living globe filled […]

Henderson Field

(Splash had this montage of old pictures of a little airfield in the Southwest Pacific. It is now called “Honiara International. American Marines called it something else a number of years ago.) Our Attorney had business of her own elsewhere. It is a weekend, and she had “business elsewhere,” which we assumed to be personal […]

New World in the Morning

Moscow sunk. No kidding. In the draft to this, the Writer’s Section used a sailor expression rather than the sanitized version. We held off in the account yesterday morning of shouting “Moskva Sunk!“ which was part of the narrative that was going around. It was such a dramatic story the group thought it was probably […]

Navigating a New World

(Slava-class warship Moskva in the Bosphorus last year, looking better than this morning, by report). We tried to swing the conversation away from Ukraine in the Weather Report this week. You saw a glimpse of the drumbeat from overseas. China is restive. Japan is considering re-orienting its military, once strictly limited to defensive purposes since […]

Weather Report: Spring Dislocation!

This is a day to celebrate country living! The Spring is upon us in spurts that remind us that progress is erratic at times, but the process is immutable. They say things will cool again in a few days, back in sweaters on the back deck for smoke breaks we call “bird watching.” That sounds […]