Life and Island Times July 27 2016 – Honey Boy This one is from March of this year. ———————————— Marlow awoke early on the ides of March with an upset stomach. He had forgotten to take his nightly tummy medicine and had sipped a half glass of red wine just before bedtime. He and W […]

Life and Island Times July 2016– Marlow’s Advice This one was written as a personal note to Vic back in the spring of 2014. ————————————– There’s a man in DC who don’t feel just right Now things are getting worse, yes a serious bind Times like this it takes a place with style that one […]

Life and Island Times July 25 2016 – Key Weird Update This one is from the spring of 2014. ——————————– Some refer to this island as Key Weird. Hunter S Thompson’s take was more direct – When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Doctor Seuss wrote “we’re all a little weird and life’s […]

Life and Island Times July 24 2016– Red Zorro This is from 2014. ———————————————- For almost three decades islanders have watched a bare-chested man run daily in a lady’s red hat. If you are on the sidewalk, his approach is announced by horse shoe clacking (he wears metal plates on the soles of his shoes […]

Life and Island Times July 23 2016 – Day One Minutiae This one is from 2013. ———————————- Editor: As a professional keeper of secrets since his early youth, Marlow was apprehensive about committing to writing the intimate details of his existence that might be revealed to others. Jotting down his reactions to that first day’s […]

Life and Island Times July 22 2016 – Christos Anesti This one is from 2015. ————– For many years Marlow supped every Easter Sunday with the grandparents of his second godson Nick. Papou George and γιαγιά Helen were Greek Orthodox Catholic. Fleeing the Nazi occupiers, George emigrated from Cyprus, washing ashore in America during WW […]

Life and Island Times July 21 2016 – Church Music This one is from early 2016. ———- W and Marlow had walked onto the church altar to fetch a live Easter lily with the name of someone on the bottom of the vase, who needed their prayers, when Marlow found himself jerked back in time. […]

Life and Island Times July 20 2016 – Square Grouper This one is from 2014. ———————– From Marlow’s days in the Keys during the early 70s, square grouper was a species unique to American island waters. They were first discovered and named by the US Coast Guard during their routine patrols of US territorial waters. […]

Life and Island Times July 19 2016 – Twilight Peculiar This one is from the spring of 2014. ——————– Marlow and W had feasted at their Wednesday supper and felt the need for a brief walk in the early twilight. They chose a path that led to the peculiar on alleys, main streets, corners and […]

Life and Island Times July 18 2016 – Sisters’ Photographic Coda Horizontal slice of Big Sister – please note the life giving, water and sap transporting phloem on the right and the soil filed phloem from the ground termite invasion on the left This is what 15 tons of tree limb and trunk wood look […]