Author: Vic Socotra

Shirley Plantation

Editor’s Note: There is some stuff going on all around us that is extremely interesting, and while tinged with some of the appurtenances of the old United States, seems like something altogether new. It will be fun to see it unfold, and naturally the entire editorial slate was summoned for critical theory indoctrination and the […]

Marlow: Seen at the local US Army Base’s Class Six store this morning

Editor’s Note: Amazon delivered two huge boxes filled with recliner chairs this morning, two days early in the storm confusion in Virginia’s Piedmont. Quite roaringly efficient. There is some other unsettling stuff going on around us. Climate Change is one of them, of course, and all the rest of the new Emergency culture in which […]

Swamp Postcard: Getting On With the Program

Well, we are doubling down on some crazy stuff this week. A look at the number of extra-constitutional decrees from the Oval Office is interesting. One positive note, President Biden seems to be able to perform on camera, which is an improvement from his description by opponents as being in cognitive decline. Of course, the […]

Marlow: Snakes and Scorpions

Editor’s Note: Arrias ran with something about the interesting collusion of Corporate and Government relations yesterday. Folks responded with thoughts about the astonishing flood of cash- some of it yours- that is washing through our institutions and media. It awoke ancient memories in me, a native Detroiter, about one of Henry Ford’s great experiments. Not […]

Arrias: Corporate America?

Editor’s Note: Made the first half of the Super Bowl that culminated a chaotic season that reflected our social chaos. It was the first professional sports I have watched in a year, but sadly only made it to the half of the game. There are several stories in the contest, but we will let them […]

What’s New is Old

It is cool living in these times. There is excitement in the air. I thought we had seen it all- generally good economic times, fending off international threats with fair success. The air was cleaner than it was in our youth. We were free to do just about anything legal. Not a perfect system, since […]

Snow Day

The snow came like they said it would. Prediction was a little off, of course. The nice lady in the red dress said it would be “one o’clock.” I had to do some presumptive work on that one, since she could have meant tomorrow after lunch or that tiny little hour in the darkness while […]

Via Dolorosa

I got all wound up last night after reading the article in what used to be Time Magazine by a journalist named Mollie Ball. She enthused at length about the people who saved the Election. They saved it by…well, you know. I must have been enthused with excitement about the unity showed by the AFL-CIO […]

Marlow: Frozen

Editor’s Note: Marlow reflected the national scramble for COVID vaccine search earlier in the series. That experience has been reflected by many pals. I am uncertain about what to do about it, but Refuge Farm has a bit of distance from that particular aspect of this tumultuous year. Equally distant is memory, and this morning […]

Bryce Update

Bryce Update (Bryce Resort reported some Virginia ‘powder’ snow this week.) Editor’s Note: Socotra LLC is not delving into real estate, nor speculation. We accidentally helped sell the property next door to world famous Refuge Farm, but that is another unrelated event in the ones we string together to make our lives. This came from […]