Life and Island Times – 02 June 2016 What Was He Looking For Yesterday was one of those days. He had climbed to the top of that day’s ladder only to discover it was against the wrong wall. It wasn’t that it involved climbing a high mountain or running through a battlefield. Those times were […]

Life and Island Times – June 1 2016 The Island is Burning It was only half way into the month of May, when the island caught fire this year. Fire was no stranger in Key West; yet, modern Conchs had lost their sense of vigilance for fire once the US Navy laid the water pipe […]

Life and Island Times -30 May 2016 Arthur Bates Sawyer October 1, 1916 Last night W and Marlow watched the movie American Sniper. Its unwavering gaze at the collateral damage that endless war wreaks on its players put both in an appropriately reverent frame of mind for today’s memorial services at two lower keys cemeteries. […]

Life and Island Times – 23 May 2016 All state and local public buildings, schools and courthouses on these coral islands are all named after locals. There is no Roosevelt High or Washington Elementary. US Presidents might get a street (or several blocks if he was a Republican) named after them, but that is it. […]

Life and Island Times – 22 May 2016 Fireflies of the Night Most appropriately after yesterday’s relationship advice piece, Marlow and W encountered fireflies under the light of the full moon. It occurred after they had finished a wonderful meal at a friend’s house and decided to take a dip in his backyard pool. As […]

Life and Island Times – May 21, 2016 Wanna Get Laid? If you are an island female, all you must do is leave the house. You will likely get picked up on your way to the bar. All that nonsense about face paint and trendy clothes is lost on the heterosexual island male. Just say […]

Life and Island Times – May 19, 2016 Alma Mater It had been 16 years since Marlow had been on the campus of his alma mater. Before that it was 1996, 1992, and 1991 then the big one in 1987 when he and the X had dropped off their #1, who had been born there […]

Life and Island Times – May 10, 2016 Air Sometimes Marlow first arrived at the end of the road back in ’74. He made his way down to the tropical mile marker zero astride a Japanese 3-holer motorcycle. Riding the Keys 42 bridges that day, he marveled at Henry Flagler’s vision, chutzpah and wealth that […]

Life and Island Times May 8 2016 This week Marlow will graduate. Well to be exact, his first grandchild will graduate from college. With this event, Marlow will officially become a senior citizen. Reflecting on this, he thought about his four-year long estrangement from this child’s mother – his first born child. He chose to […]

Life and Island Times May 7 2016 Two lines of Jimmy Buffett’s signature song “Margaritaville” speak of a footwear failure I blew out my flip flop, Stepped on a pop top, Those who were on the island during this trop-rock pioneer salad days recall him wearing locally made sandals and not flip flops. Those sandals […]