Author: Vic Socotra

Piedmont Dawn

  Rains pelted the farm last night with vigor and a blast of sound and wind. The predictable decisions cast their shadow- raise the powered awning to avoid potential damage? If run up for storage, the cover from the blistering soggy heat would be saved from Nature’s passing wrath, but the seats at the outside […]

Country Adventures

As you know, the rolling hills of Virginia’s green and lovely Piedmont can conceal adventure and mystery. They are not the same as up in the Blue swatch around DC. In fact, they sometimes don’t seem to be in the same space-time continuum. We used to live in Fairfax County, and that school district is […]

Life & Island Times: Marlow’s Porch Bath

Editor’s Note: Morning! The Interns are having an off-morning. Both Stephanie and Josh are unlocated, and since they are not generally restricted to the Loading Dock area near the barn, veteran writers have been pressed into service to examine this offering from the redoubtable Marlow. To help readers focus, there is an original work of verse […]

Letters to the Editor

  Intern Note:We posted some words from contributor Marlow yesterday while the Boss was goofing off. We also got warned. Management has some hang-ups from the Compliance nerds bitching about just posting stuff. Our response was that management posts all kinds of dubious stuff without asking us, who actually look like America, whether it makes […]

Weather Report: The Coming Storm?

Good morning, Gentle Readers! It has been quiet since the 4th of July, which used to be a fairly large holiday here in the United States of America. Which is not quite as united as they used to be, but that seems the nature of things these days. The President traveled yesterday to deliver an […]