Life and Island Times July 9 2016: Cooking With Love – A Christmas Story This is from December 2013. ———————————————————– Team members awoke early today, since the Metropolitan Community Church’s Cooking With Love program volunteers would be delivering Christmas meals to 130 souls across their island town. As Marlow opened the front doors to the […]

Life and Island Times Jul 8 2016 – Island Superstition This one is from 2012. ——————————————————————— This island is a peculiar place – chock full of boozers, bikers, bozos, bimbos, and a few believers. Some are creative types bent on reinventing themselves and the island – as often as on a daily basis. What follows […]

Life and Island Times July 7 2016 – Island Romance Over a decade ago, Marlow delved into an especially creepy island romance from the past century. He read a thin paperback account entitled Undying Love that outlined it and led him to other source materials. Here now is a brief summary. ——————————————- Carl Tanzler, aka […]

Life and Island Times July 6 2016 – A True Man This one is from 2014. ———————————————————– Marlow woke early this morning to find his smart phone calendar reminding him of the day’s scheduled events. Tuesday July 15 Poker at Sheldon’s, it read. This scribe was a newbie at this weekly event with only five […]

Life and Island Times July 5 2016 – Embraceable You Gentle readers, this is a continuation of the In Search of Lost Time epistles that your scribe penned during the past decade about island life. This one dates from 2013. – – – – – – – – – – – – Marlow awoke last […]

Life and Island Times July 4 2016: Church of Brunch Three or so years ago found Marlow and W loosely leading a caravan of bowlers off island to NAS Boca Chica’s Airlanes under a setting sun. The motorcade was populated with nine travelers emblematic of Key West’s One Human Family – gays, straights and assorted […]

Life and Island Times July 3 2016 – Isaac Conchs, both saltwater and fresh water, were visited by an Old Testament patriarch back in August 2012. Isaac, יִצְחָק, in the Hebrew Bible was Abraham’s only son. Isaac came without his family. It must have been a boys-only vacation. A Canaanite by birth and life-long inhabitant […]

Life and Island Times July 2 2016 – Rainbow Key West Legend has it that the rainbow was Yahweh’s promise to Noah that he would never flood the earth again. The ancient world had been cleansed and its rebirth had started Key Westers of the late 20th century morphed this recreation myth into its official […]