Life and Island Times July 18 2016 – Two Sisters Out behind casa Marlow reside two massive Spanish lime tree (Mamoncillo or little sucker) sisters. One is of middle age, while the older one dates back 140 to 150 years. These sisters sit atop a fresh water lens below the island’s porous limestone. This convex […]

Life and Island Time July 16 2016 – Life is Too Short. Hop on the Bus! This one is from 2013 and chronicles in part that year in pictures. Copyright © 2016 From My Isle Seat

Life and Island Times July 17 2016 – Island Thoughts The Florida Keys . . . for most fresh water conchs there was no direct route from where they were at to where they got once in Key West. Most followed a zigzag course that took them through the big cities and careers, foreign travel […]

Life and Island Times July 15 2016 – Maverick This one is from early 2016. —————————————————— Marlow had been pulled in many directions during the past three weeks. So much so, he was worn down beyond exhaustion to the point of illness. He was beset with things both legal and financial in his public and […]

Life and Island Times July 14 2016 – Time To Ramble On This one is from early 2012. ————————————– Marlow’s condo dorm running mates had all turned sixty three. They were just three hundred days younger than that Beatles song “When I’m 64” which posed the age old question of “Will you still love me?” […]

Life and Island Times July 13 2016 – DC This is one from 2016. ———————————— Marlow was expecting a fractious meeting at the Post on a cold February night. His stomach was churning for two reasons. The first was a long brewing argument over what charities could receive Post donations. The second was that it […]

Life and Island Times July 12 2016 – The Bull This remembrance was of a spring afternoon that Vic and Marlow spent along Duval Street in 2014. —————————————————– Well the sun was high, when we rode into town Last night’s rain up in DC, it froze on the ground Down the warm street, heard a […]

Life and Island Times July 11 2016– Penelope and Her Man Here is another one from 2016. ————————————————————– Marlow was at an evening midtown poker game last night, losing his lunch money for the next day. W was filling those three hours apart with her evening walk. She loved this time of the day to […]

Life and Island Times July 10 2016 – Drinking with Jesus This one is from 2011. —————————– I found myself half wasted at the Parrot late one night I was drinking heavily with Jesus Talking about my crap life Tell me, tell me Jesus Tell me, tell me more Why am I not happy? Why […]

Life and Island Times July 9 2016: Cooking With Love – A Christmas Story This is from December 2013. ———————————————————– Team members awoke early today, since the Metropolitan Community Church’s Cooking With Love program volunteers would be delivering Christmas meals to 130 souls across their island town. As Marlow opened the front doors to the […]