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April 1, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Birthdays

Author’s note: This is not a serious war-war or a playful April Fool’s Day piece. It’s more in keeping with sharing tradecraft in the arts of grandparenthood and passing out indications and warnings in addition to the things that worked. -Marlow Way, way back in the days of yore — like the 1940s way back, […]

March 31, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: The Empire Barge Life

Think of life here in the Empire as drifting upon magnificent barge where large, feathered fans stroke the warm river air and time moves differently from the time of everywhere else. Everything is better on the barge with a kind of ease scenting our nights. The barge passes through towns up and down river, through […]

March 31, 2022 Vic Socotra

Vietnam Veteran’s Day

(POWs return, 1973, Midway flight deck, Delegation at the Caravel Hotel, Saigon, military relics of an old war, and the gates to the former US Embassy). Morning, Folks! There is a lot going on and many tugs on memory in all sorts of directions. By separate correspondence, Marlow is in with a story we will […]

March 30, 2022 Vic Socotra

Weather Report: Balkan Branches and Sequels?

It was an interesting week and we are only at the Camel Day hump! There are reports that Peace may be on the verge of breaking out in Ukraine. Socotra House no longer has access to classified information, though, and we have to rely on the opposing narrative lines in the propaganda end of the […]

March 30, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Battle to Preserve Our Past Continues

Gentle Readers, The American Battlefield Trust has joined the battle in which I enlisted several years ago to attempt to preserve some of the landscapes that framed the struggles of our Revolution and Civil War. We were successful in purchasing a McMansion sited on the top of the hill in the center of the Battle […]

March 29, 2022 Vic Socotra

…And Taxes

“Good morning, Gentle Readers. I am Amanda, the quiet one they complain about here. The Writer’s Circle is reluctant to go outside this morning, since at first light under a sliver moon and the brilliant light of Venus it is sixteen degrees by the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm. The Person in Red on the […]

March 28, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Unlimited War

As we try to come to grips with the situation in Europe – a war in Ukraine, a great deal of pressure on the NATO alliance, the problem of Vladimir Putin – we need to take a look at history to provide us with some guidance. And, while comparing anyone to Hitler is often a […]

March 27, 2022 Vic Socotra

Masada

Morning, Folks! There are the usual fits-and-starts outside in Virginia’s lush Piedmont as we drive into Spring. The waning moon gave us a glimmer as the sun came up. Pretty morning. The gang drifted out of sleep sacks for coffee and conversation at the Fire Ring not supervised by the Attorney who is supposed to […]