Life and Island Times Jul 8 2016 – Island Superstition This one is from 2012. ——————————————————————— This island is a peculiar place – chock full of boozers, bikers, bozos, bimbos, and a few believers. Some are creative types bent on reinventing themselves and the island – as often as on a daily basis. What follows […]

Life and Island Times July 7 2016 – Island Romance Over a decade ago, Marlow delved into an especially creepy island romance from the past century. He read a thin paperback account entitled Undying Love that outlined it and led him to other source materials. Here now is a brief summary. ——————————————- Carl Tanzler, aka […]

Life and Island Times July 6 2016 – A True Man This one is from 2014. ———————————————————– Marlow woke early this morning to find his smart phone calendar reminding him of the day’s scheduled events. Tuesday July 15 Poker at Sheldon’s, it read. This scribe was a newbie at this weekly event with only five […]

Life and Island Times July 5 2016 – Embraceable You Gentle readers, this is a continuation of the In Search of Lost Time epistles that your scribe penned during the past decade about island life. This one dates from 2013. – – – – – – – – – – – – Marlow awoke last […]

Life and Island Times July 4 2016: Church of Brunch Three or so years ago found Marlow and W loosely leading a caravan of bowlers off island to NAS Boca Chica’s Airlanes under a setting sun. The motorcade was populated with nine travelers emblematic of Key West’s One Human Family – gays, straights and assorted […]

Life and Island Times July 3 2016 – Isaac Conchs, both saltwater and fresh water, were visited by an Old Testament patriarch back in August 2012. Isaac, יִצְחָק, in the Hebrew Bible was Abraham’s only son. Isaac came without his family. It must have been a boys-only vacation. A Canaanite by birth and life-long inhabitant […]

Life and Island Times July 2 2016 – Rainbow Key West Legend has it that the rainbow was Yahweh’s promise to Noah that he would never flood the earth again. The ancient world had been cleansed and its rebirth had started Key Westers of the late 20th century morphed this recreation myth into its official […]

Life and Island Times July 1 2016 – Why Marlow Loves Key West For many years during his current coral island sojourn, Marlow wrote down every day the reasons why he was thankful to live in Key West. By the 2012 holiday season he compiled from the thousands of random thoughts a “best of list.” […]

Life and Island Times June 29 2016 – The Other Side of Life’s Loose Ends You know this isn’t a secret. So, it’s not just between you and me We don’t know where this is going next, and unsure what’s gonna be Yeah, and that’s the other side of this life the world is leading, […]

Life and Island Times June 28 2016 – Life Threatening Loose Ends Marlow and his sister, Harvard, have been trying to keep fraying loose ends from totally unravelling, since last December. These were life and death matters for their ward and younger 60 year old brother. He had been living in long term care facilities […]