Editor’s Note: Marlow contributes one of three missives this morning. This is one about the Rules under which we should live. Later, Arrias will contribute an appreciation of our passing year in verse. Vic has a Manual on letter-writing and social conduct from a sweet lady whose future is passed. We share the memory of […]

London, 1988 In late December, my team of uniformed and civilian government workers, prime and support contractors weas wrapping up the install of a state-of-the-art multi-level secure intelligence system at the HQ of CINCUSNAVEUR, when the NSA, DIA and CIA security accreditors said we needed to fix some issues. We dutifully cancelled our travel arrangements […]

Author’s Note: Here are a few samples of Savannah’s days of Christmas: -Marlow Best decorated front entrance door on Habersham Street Christmas Market on River Street W’s fresh cut Christmas tree Copyright 2022 My Aisle Seat www.vicsocotra.com

Coral islanders of the Florida Keys protect select cherished mainlanders and their privacy who come our way regularly to escape the hurly burly of the mainland.  Especially those who come to our taverns and dive bars to sit a spell, tiple a bit, shoot the breeze, tell tall tales and, yes, I’ll admit it, gossip. One […]

Editor’s Note: A Square State buddy out west gave us a nice recount of the storm that hit them yesterday. There is a note of the surreal in nodding along with a report of gusts over fifty miles an hour slicing across their property and the better part of a foot of snow going sideways. Here […]

Author’s Note: As the fools on the Hill rush about, dragging their final beltway bills of 2022 to an uncertain finish line, we the people take our time to holiday. Their warnings of an Apocalypse, if they don’t get what they want, fall upon deafened ears, minds, hearts, and souls.  We scoff at their claims of foolproof plans and […]

Editor’s Note: One of us was on Dr. Fauci’s SARS-1 team twenty years ago and recalls being lectured by him on the dangers of lock-downs and over-reaction to that disease. To avoid restrictions on US biological research, the Good Doctor moved the operation overseas. To China. –       Vic Author’s Note: I’ve been thinking about how one half of […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow contributes an update on his Coastal Empire election marathon. Since all the rest of us have been wondering (for months?) about who will lead the U.S. Senate, this account of the endless series of tabulations may be useful. Current standing? 50 Dem, 49 Rep, with the Peach State still undecided. – Vic […]

Cobble stoned River Streetat sunset in Savannah Georgia Author’s Note: Dear Readers, We’re not on some wilding bunch road trip. We are mostly unchanging folk in an ever faster changing land — a bit out of step, place and sooner rather than later out of time as our sundown approaches. Suddenly, our days will be […]

Author’s Note: We were out on Bull Street doing Taco Tuesday supper, sipping some hard cider margaritas, when I spied a tight formation flight of southern bound migrating birds’ honking approach their nightfall roosting marsh water accommodations. At the same time in the background, I heard the terms old duck and diving duck. As I […]