Author: vicSocotra

THE NEW PROJECT

THE NEW PROJECT

The “Wimmin!” were at the New Stanley Hottel, delivered by the former East Africa Rail from Mombasa.Which led to the stories contained in the current book project;THE WORDS ON THE BACK FLAP SUM UP THE PROJECT, LIVED BY:AND SOME OF THEIR PALS…While doing this:While living this:And ‘This.’ This is Snidely Whiplash, one of the best […]

Projects

Projects

Miles was in a mixed mood. He had a little box that contained an ancient manila box. It held a small notebook, pocket sized, and a few cartoons scrawled with ink and marking papers. “I assigned Snidely Whiplash to go through some of the old files from the locker in the Conference Room and try […]

Mail Call: Happy Birthday, USN

Mail Call: Happy Birthday, USN

Happy Birthday, USN. Above, USS Constitution earns her call-sign as “Old Ironsides” in her battle against HMS Guerrier n 1812. There is some dispute abut who was operating on the high seas on this day some 250 years ago, but we will render this tribute to those who have served on the waves since before […]

Dragon Falls

There is a rip-roaring tale just published that is an invaluable tale of a world in being that is invisible to most of us. In this one, retired Navy Commander Jack Tanner is described as he arrives in Malaysia on a cyber-security book tour. The vestiges of his counter-intelligence training shapes his innocent movements. He […]

Arrias: Change of Weather

I looked out on the back, there was a young doe under the maples, a shaft of sunlight through the trees despite the clouds above – as if out a master’s painting of a forest scene, but there is already a scattering of gold and red leaves Autumn Approaches Speckled sunlight filters through the trees,A […]

Arrias: Roses in the Stone Garden

I wasn’t sure until this morning, but… I drove up to Arlington today for a funeral, then came home – long drive, but necessary… Roses in the Stone Garden Place the rose on the ground, By the flower of stone, So many stones, row on row, Dear Lord, how they have grown. I placed roses […]

Arrias: Arras & Independence Day Muse

Arrias: “Got home about an hour ago, have now unpacked, and fed the puppy! Yesterday was a wake and funeral for CDR Effie Petrie, in Marietta, Ga. Drove home this morning, crossed the Saluda just west of Colombia - just before it turns and runs right into Columbia… Early morning, thick mist rising of the [...]

Arrias and the Cicadas

A heavy chorus of cicadas as I walked Rosey – it was almost as if they were singing two parts – scores would click away for perhaps a second or two – must have been hundreds of them, a slight pause, then another section of the choir with a different pitch for a second or […]

The Status of Forces

The Status of Forces

Korea has always had a tug on my spirit. Maybe it goes back to my fourteen-month assignment in what had, originally, been the steam bath for Japanese Forces assigned to occupy the ancient capital of a unified nation. We looked at the frontier a couple dozen miles to the North, and the irksome antics of […]

Local Story

Local Story

That picture is the way part of the Jewish Museum in Washington used to look. It was fifteen minutes across town, and is about the way it looked the last time we saw it in person. The majority of it, in fact, before Lillian and Albert Small made a commitment to move the original synagogue […]