Note: I wrote today’s piece way back in the early fall just before my “new” laptop developed a fatal hard drive fault. It took a long time to fix the computer and then chase down the old drive all over the country before recovering the data thereon. It was the opening day of the 2016 […]

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Election 2016 seems to have boiled down to who could encapsulate his/her message to the general public in vignettes as entertaining, as compelling with clearly dramatic highs and lows, and as briefly as possible. Once again, effective self-storytelling and self-selling were about the characters and not the story, policy substance, truth or […]

PT Barnum said it long ago Voters, like suckers, born every minute, don-cha- no Primary candidates made us laugh, some made us cry These nominated clowns said the others gonna make us die   Supporters came arunnin’ when their clown’s circus came to town They stayed away from the tents of the opponent killer clown […]

PT Barnum said it long ago Voters, like suckers, born every minute, don-cha- no Primary candidates made us laugh, some made us cry These nominated clowns said the other’s gonna make us die Supporters came arunnin when their clown’s circus came to town They stayed away from the tents of the opponent killer clown TV […]

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Neither’s a good person or combatant but each managed to get into the 2016 show brutal non-stop, side street fighting Darkened voter minds too far apart to bridge they are picking on each other’s biggest and meanest friends both wing and catch shots to the screams of their red and blue faced […]

Marlow’s Coastal Empire they enter sit down prepared to argue talk talk talk move their arms jab their fingers they knock on doors ring our phones jam our mail boxes infest our TVs like people with nothing to do when they talk their desperation for approval is without anguish or worry like someone afflicted with […]

Coastal Empire As we live on and on and on and on, there are more than enough reasons to smile. After five years of shepherding or bearing witness to family members and friends passing through their life’s last years, months and days, I have collected a few essential lessons. We finally figure out that dying […]

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Wednesday last week, a local morning paper ran a brief story about a missing statue of Jesus. The statue was last seen on Monday on the Blessed Sacrament parish campus overlooking Victory Drive (a major East-West thoroughfare in Savannah) close to Waters Avenue. Jesus used to stand tall right next to the […]

This will be a perspective piece delivered in the first person. It will not be a hit and run job with a third person zinger or revelation shoehorned in some out of the way corner of the article. Will it be witty? Wise? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps pithy but most of all, hopefully, a coherent […]

Perfect weather, patriotic music and plenty of BYO food and drink drew tens of thousands to a picnic at Forsyth Park this past Sunday. As with all things now, this annual event had a theme – “Under the Stars and Stripes.” Consequently, many picnickers sported red, white and blue to enjoy music, competed for prizes […]