Category: Marlow: Life & Island Times

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 […]

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 […]

Life & Island Times: Thanksgiving

Editor’s Note: On these special Holidays, I remember those who lived in their time, and who shared their times with the young ones. The men had been inadvertent warriors in their time, and all thankful to have survived. The women were strong and indomitable, proving they could do what needed to be done until peace […]

Life & Island Times: Minutiae

Editor’s Note: Marlow is concerned this morning. I share his sentiments at least in part, since I have family. members who may be in the process of violating the new COVID restrictions on Thanksgiving celebrations in a western state. I debated this morning about running the Swamp Postcard of this strange week, but I am […]

Life & Island Times: Dessert Season

Editor’s Note: Marlow grapples this bright cheery morning with the change of our traditional seasons due to COVID restrictions. It is better than watching the disparate narratives play out. I was looking for The Kraken one side said they were about to release this week. We will see, I suppose. In the meantime, here is […]

Life & Island Times: Plague Journal Cut-Ups & Outs

Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s outing on the Mayflower Compact and the layers of indignity in this strange year stimulated Marlow to take a look at the Plague, month by month. It has been interesting for us all. And better than looking at House bill HR-1, which Speaker Pelosi intends to use to bring California to us […]

Life & Island Times: God for a Day

Editor’s Note: In keeping with this near half-way point in a momentous month, Marlow shares this on Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? -Vic 13 November 2020 God for a Day Author’s note: Yes, more thoughts from our viral incarceration. -Marlow During idle moments under the shadows of this year-long plague, I sometimes mused […]

Life & Island Times: B(r)and Loyalty

Editor’s Note: In addition to other news about global pandemics, renowned correspondent Marlow felt it necessary to provide non-pharmaceutical means of compensation. Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day- so we are staying loyal to our brand. – Vic B(r)and Loyalty With one or more vaccines showing huge promise this morning, it’s time to return once again to […]

Life & Island Times: Deaf Dwarfs in the Street

Editor’s Note: The excitement of the tangled election increased as the media outlets- including an interesting change in the Fox approach to mass information dissemination- to declare Mr. Biden the President elect. It is an amazing process, since recounts and court battles will go on for weeks before a definitive President-elect is chosen by the […]

Life & Island Times: Georgia

Editor’s Note: Events down in the Great State of Georgia caused Marlow to look at his music collection for a compendium of song titles about the indomitable Rock of the South. Part of the family last spent time there for the Battle of Peachtree Creek and a small business in derailing trains. The subsequent walk […]