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July 1, 2016 Vic Socotra

Rocket’s Red Glare

Gentle Readers, I commend today’s installment of “Life and Island Times” to your attention as our faithful correspondent Marlow ticks off a couple hundred reasons he will be missing Key West from the vantage of a new home on the Mainland. I share a little of his passion for the lovely Key at the southernmost […]

July 1, 2016 Vic Socotra

Why Marlow Loves Key West

Life and Island Times July 1 2016 – Why Marlow Loves Key West For many years during his current coral island sojourn, Marlow wrote down every day the reasons why he was thankful to live in Key West. By the 2012 holiday season he compiled from the thousands of random thoughts a “best of list.” […]

June 30, 2016 Vic Socotra

Duval Street

Life and Island Times June 30 2016 – Duval Street Key West’s Duval Street at night in the rain Winding our way down on Duval Street Light in our heads and dead on our feet Another crazy day in the world, we’ll drink the night away And forget about everything The world events make you […]

June 29, 2016 Vic Socotra

The Other Side of Life’s Loose Ends

Life and Island Times June 29 2016 – The Other Side of Life’s Loose Ends You know this isn’t a secret. So, it’s not just between you and me We don’t know where this is going next, and unsure what’s gonna be Yeah, and that’s the other side of this life the world is leading, […]

June 29, 2016 Vic Socotra

TAPS: RADM Ted Sheafer

There is some pretty crazy stuff going on in the world this morning, and I was tempted to break my self-imposed embargo on commenting on some of the most egregious examples of the lunacy. I stayed in last night after a comforting hour-long swim and soaked in what details were available on the bombings at […]

June 28, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life Threatening Loose Ends

Life and Island Times June 28 2016 – Life Threatening Loose Ends Marlow and his sister, Harvard, have been trying to keep fraying loose ends from totally unravelling, since last December. These were life and death matters for their ward and younger 60 year old brother. He had been living in long term care facilities […]

June 28, 2016 Vic Socotra

Dining in the Country

(The Inn at Little Washington, site of two out of two of the most amazing meals of my now unsettlingly long life, courtesy of the Webb Family). I had a minor adventure over the weekend- well, three, if you count the farm and the chores that made me justify a trip to town for a […]

June 27, 2016 Vic Socotra

More Loose Ends

Life and Island Times June 27 2016 – More Loose Ends W and Marlow had been working to keep several loose ends from further fraying during the past twenty months. They knew that living on their isolated coral rock island was a risk. Their concern wasn’t the seasonal hurricanes that buffeted the island. The risks […]

June 26, 2016 Vic Socotra

Loose Ends

Life and Island Times June 26 2016 – Loose Ends Endings are always more important than beginnings. If you flop at a project’s beginning, you may always put it aside, come back later and finish it off. Or you could abandon it as fruitless and move forward. But if the ending fails, then . . […]

June 26, 2016 Vic Socotra

Epic Fail

Well, if you have to fail, do so spectacularly. Teddy Roosevelt said something like that, I forget when, but screw it. He was right. And we did. Fail. Epically. I have to acknowledge my partners in the failure, who contributed with élan and espirit, and a certain indomitable panache that made me proud to be […]