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December 23, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: This Old Porch

Editor’s Note: I am not going to fulminate this morning about the alleged COVID Relief Bill, festooned with all sorts of things completely unrelated to the pandemic, and which actually represents all sorts of what we used to call “Pork.” There is very little contained in it for the people most affected by COVID. The […]

December 23, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Holiday Season and Innocence

Editor’s Note: This morning, Marlow helps to bring us back to a sense of who we are- or were- as kids and as parents. There is some amazing stuff happening here in The Swamp, but since the folks up there on the Hill that looms above us don’t seem to actually have the time to […]

December 21, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Diverse Americans

21 December 2020 Editor’s Note: Today marks the Solstice, the shortest day of the year. Or, as Old Jim at Willow would bellow: “It’s the same length as every other day. It just has a few seconds less sunlight than yesterday!” Then he would slam down the long-neck Budweiser with a declarative thud on the […]

December 20, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Air Campaign

20 December 2020 Editor’s Note: This popped up as I was trying to organize a compendium of official travel to some odd places- Delhi, Zagreb, Rangoon, Pyongyang among others. It was weird and fun. But I found some other stuff that stopped me in my tracks. This is one of them.We talked about th end […]

December 19, 2020 Vic Socotra

When One War Ended…

19 December 2020 When One War Ended…. Editor’s Note: Here in Virginia’s Piedmont, most of the snow is aligned in orderly clumps this morning. Those may depart before the endless series of Hallmark movies has been put to bed for what hopefully may be a bright new year. I can summarize: “cute lady returns to […]

December 18, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Plague Blues After Hours

(Refuge Farm in snow, recherché. Photos courtesy of Grace). Editor’s Note: No snide bemoaning of the momentary politics this morning. That squirrelly jet stream of frigid air beat us up but good this week. More snow last night atop the crusty ice that enveloped us at mid-week. The usual preparations for the unknown were revealed […]

December 17, 2020 Vic Socotra

Waiting for Snow in the Swamp

They have been hysterical on the flat screen for the last couple days, predicting a wild variety of snow accumulation on the Eastern Seaboard. We had nothing last season, so this combines a potential novelty and systemic collapse as a news story. Of course, there is so much going on in the background it is […]

December 17, 2020 Vic Socotra

Bell in the Ice

It was an odd Thanksgiving this strange year, and odder still to feel the spirit of “thanks” that rises on mornings like this. OK, I get it. You cannot feel the ice that coats the old Navy bell on the back deck. It has spent it’s long life in the open, on the ocean, decorating […]

December 15, 2020 Vic Socotra

Snake Ranch Papers

(This young American is on the only side of this little bridge you would want to visit. The other side of it is in North Korea. Taken at he Joint Security Area (JSA) in 1980 by some kid named ‘Socotra.’) I am sure you want to talk about the Electoral College this morning, and the […]

December 15, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Snake Ranch Papers

(This young American is on the only side of this little bridge you would want to visit. The other side of it is in North Korea. Taken at he Joint Security Area (JSA) in 1980 by some kid named ‘Socotra.’) I am sure you want to talk about the Electoral College this morning, and the […]