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July 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Incompetence in the Persian Gulf

This is a sad, but necessary read, forwarded to me from a retired senior officer. I read it in disbelief. The alternative was to write about the other elephant this has taken up residence in our collective living room, and to that I can only offer my sympathy to the people of Nice, and say […]

July 15, 2016 Vic Socotra

Maverick

Life and Island Times July 15 2016 – Maverick This one is from early 2016. —————————————————— Marlow had been pulled in many directions during the past three weeks. So much so, he was worn down beyond exhaustion to the point of illness. He was beset with things both legal and financial in his public and […]

July 14, 2016 Vic Socotra

Days of Rage

I was torn between writing about making the perfect dough for Piergois, the tasty polish dumpling, in Rose Wysocki’s nice cook-book, or attempt to describe the assembly of some of ancient cocktail concoctions contained in the re-print of the 1935 Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. And I have been meaning to talk about some of the sure-fire […]

July 14, 2016 Vic Socotra

Time To Ramble On

Life and Island Times July 14 2016 – Time To Ramble On This one is from early 2012. ————————————– Marlow’s condo dorm running mates had all turned sixty three. They were just three hundred days younger than that Beatles song “When I’m 64” which posed the age old question of “Will you still love me?” […]

July 13, 2016 Vic Socotra

DC

Life and Island Times July 13 2016 – DC This is one from 2016. ———————————— Marlow was expecting a fractious meeting at the Post on a cold February night. His stomach was churning for two reasons. The first was a long brewing argument over what charities could receive Post donations. The second was that it […]

July 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

Trouble in St. Joe

(Berrien County Court Bailiffs Joseph Zangaro (L) and Ron Kienzle. Both had previous service as sworn police officers and had worked at the Courthouse for a decade. Photo Jason Heeres/Twitter). I was moving the cars late yesterday afternoon. The saving grace was that I had remembered to forget that the crew from the Brother Asphalt […]

July 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

The Bull

Life and Island Times July 12 2016 – The Bull This remembrance was of a spring afternoon that Vic and Marlow spent along Duval Street in 2014. —————————————————– Well the sun was high, when we rode into town Last night’s rain up in DC, it froze on the ground Down the warm street, heard a […]

July 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

Penelope and Her Man

Life and Island Times July 11 2016– Penelope and Her Man Here is another one from 2016. ————————————————————– Marlow was at an evening midtown poker game last night, losing his lunch money for the next day. W was filling those three hours apart with her evening walk. She loved this time of the day to […]

July 12, 2016 Vic Socotra

Summer Squash Fritters

The day was too nice to get sucked back into the turmoil that came tumbling out of the long weekend. It is ugly, and the conclusion of “Child 44,” the thriller about times in the Uncle Joe’s Soviet Union made me realize that it might be time to be extremely cautious in dealing with any […]

July 10, 2016 Vic Socotra

Remington Afternoon

It is hard getting it together this morning. I want to go swim and hang out at the pool back up north and I am at the farm with chores to do. The motivation was to be here was to check the mail, ensure the mice had not moved back into the postbox, look at […]