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December 6, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Holiday Songs

Editor’s Note: Here in Virginia, our Governor has issued some additional emergency restrictions on his subjects. I will see whether or not they actually affect us, since we are following the usual Cold & Flu common sense precautions. I wear a mask to enter the the health facility before taking it off to swim, avoid […]

December 5, 2020 Vic Socotra

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Editor’s Note: Watching an endless Hallmark Channel movies has been recommended as a possible therapy for SAD. It is worth a try. Refuge Farm is decorated. Marlow has some memories of tunes past coming up tomorrow. As was heard in the chow line near the publishing bunk-house late yesterday, “Best damn National Emergency, ever!” – […]

December 4, 2020 Vic Socotra

The Old Navy

Editor’s Note: Medical appointments this morning. This note is from ten years ago and kind of fun. Not exactly like this year. Reading it makes me remember another America. – Vic 05 December 2010 (Keepers of the Old Navy traditions. USMC Drill Instructors. Photo USMC.) My Candidate Officer called from Newport late yesterday, right before […]

December 3, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island TImes: Lockdown Prison Blues

Editor’s Note: This morning I was working on the 30th chapter of a little book I am calling “The Seventy Days.” The title is shorthand for the period of sidereal time between the national election in early November of 2020 and the Presidential inauguration on the 20th of January, 2021. So far, it is just […]

December 2, 2020 Vic Socotra

Swamp Postcard: Christmas in the Cross-Hairs?

I was briefly stunned into waking consciousness by a news blast yesterday afternoon. I know, I had almost dozed off in peace, but sadly that is how we get our news these days. I was reviewing some of the more amazing claims about the recent election- you may have heard them- that involved alleged casualties […]

December 1, 2020 Vic Socotra

Seasick Summit, Part Two

Editor’s Note: This is part two of an account of a small event that happened a while ago. At the time, it was part of something much larger than a politician’s visit to a simple aircraft carrier conducting routine operations in the Mediterranean Sea. There was something else much larger going on. The Soviet State […]

November 30, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Food Memories

Editor’s Note: Here are Refuge Farm the left-overs are gone. Home-made apple pie and the best cream cheese pie topped with cranberry sauce bit the dust before bedtime last night. I got up this morning prepared to deal with the great issues of the day, and Marlow bright back some particular insight on tase and […]

November 30, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: America Second

Here’s a quick quiz: What happened on June 21st, 1966? It’s a bit esoteric, and I suspect it isn’t even taught anywhere any more, but it was an important date, for it was the date that French President Charles de Gaulle sent a brief note to President Johnson that contains this simple line: France is […]

November 30, 2020 Vic Socotra

Seasick Summit

Editor’s Note: Yeah, I know, we got back in the saddle yesterday to try to sense what is coming in this tumultuous year. I have a sense for what is going to happen this week, as the Electoral Summit’s proximity will drive all sorts of entertaining adventures. All the talk about Presidents and who they […]

November 28, 2020 Vic Socotra

Back in the Saddle

I said we could get back to normal today, the day after the actual day after. But let’s start slow and ease into it. The left-overs will last until this evening. I think there is a slice of Culpeper home-made apple pie that may linger to breakfast tomorrow. It is a splendid, if finite, replacement […]