Editor’s Note: Traditional Disclaimer: This is a touching tribute to friendship from Marlow, who is a real live human being. – Vic Death Arrived on Time Death arrived on time this past Tuesday morning. It was easier than we thought it would have been. Ned had been suffering from congestive heart failure for several years; […]

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer applies. Marlow’s voice is his own. – Vic March for Science W and I were taking in the annual hidden garden tour of old town Savannah yesterday, when the Hostess City’s March for Science shambled past us. Not much science, no chanting. science celebrating or politics was in evidence. Even the […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow brings back some memories from a quarter century ago. Not good ones. We all share them, though. Last night there was the monthly gathering of the tribe down in Old Town at the Sonoma Cellars wine bar. Our missing comrades could have been there had they made other choices. – Vic April […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow is a real live human being. Really. -Vic Author’s Note: This is not something I wanted to share, let alone post, during Holy Week. So, I withheld it for the coming week. True story nonetheless. – Marlow Strong Letter To Follow I found a single day’s correspondence I had had with various […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow is his own man. Like, totally. – The Editorial Board El Dorado I found one of my old state highway maps from a cross country trip in 2005. It prompted this memory: no chance at all, completely cut off from eastern imperial cities, I was a middle aged man riding my motorcycle […]

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer. Marlow is an actual human being and a welcome guest on the Socotra House LLC site. I miss our place- Maverick’s, on Woodward Ave. in suburban Detroit. If I had his car I would probably already be dead. – Vic Drive-in Nightmare I grew up in a place called Clintonville, a […]

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer. Marlow is a real and distinguished human being. Added Thoughts About Net People When writers grow old, their thoughts sometimes dwell upon legacy. A desire for same almost always is destined to failure. Most scribblers never realize that they are penning stories atop bakery cakes with icing on a hot day […]

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer: Marlow is a real person, and veers into poetry on occasion as he does this rainy morning. Me? I slogged through the taxes this morning and stabbed the button and sent them in. What an obtuse and frustrating system we have created. When I printed out a paper copy for the […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow, and his wonderful Coastal Empire series, comes from a real human being and is not a figment of my fevered imagination. This one struck a particularly resonant chord. I work from home- or better said, with the net, I live at the office. I find if I turn around from the AOL […]

Editor’s Note: This is, in the form of the mandatory disclosure, the fruit of the intellect of Marlow, a colleague of distant year’s past. It is his story, but we all have them, don’t we? Life & Island Times: It Is All on Us Last week’s imperial city healthcare follies stoked citizens’ fears over the […]