Life and Island Times May 6 2016 He’s gonna love the low spark of high-heeled prison boys Marlow has always liked this Traffic song for its spiritual message. Spirit is something that no one destroys is a great line for those from the rebellious 60s who loved rock music. The story behind Low Spark Of […]

Life and Island Times May 5 2016 “The use of misdirection can help you out maneuver your competitors” (Subtext of artist Gabe Leonard’s painting entitled Smoke Screen) The above painting (entitled Smoke Screen) spoke volumes to Marlow, when he and W saw it at a local art gallery this past Friday. While gazing upon it […]

Life and Island Times May 4 2016 Late Monday, He called Marlow to inform him that Wilma was ready for pick up. Marlow beamed and told W to get ready to take him out to desolate East Rockland Key. On the way, he told her the story of this Key’s US Navy submarine pens. The […]

And Life and Island Times May 1 2016 Bradley’s Lock and Key As W took Marlow around a corner on afternoon walking tour, he spotted an old worn down building on State Street that immediately captured his attention. It was starkly painted, grimy and exuded a smell of stale oil. You could tell it had […]

Life and Island Times April 30 2016 Marlow and his W had just picked up her port wine club shipment at UPS on Rockland Key Wednesday night, when they decided to visit the new CVS on Stock Island on their return home. This gargantuan, stick built store had been open for six months and was […]

Life and Island Times April 29 2016 A dozen or so islanders opened their email inboxes three weeks ago one morning to find an email with this piece’s subject line from a guy named Sexton. Its sender is a sly jokester who sometimes plays off his surname’s more pious meaning. Some readers marked it as […]

Life and Island Times April 27 2016 A Cuban Mixte is a Caribbean version of a ham and cheese sandwich. It is made with ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard, and sometimes salami on Cuban bread. As with Cuban bread, the origin of this Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a “Cuban mix,” a “mixto” or […]

Life and Island Times April 26 2016 While Marlow and W were wandering the northern Georgia coast, things on their coral island were heating up on the front page of the papers. For the second time during the past year, exotic dancers also known as strippers had filed suit in federal court claiming job misclassification […]

Life and Island Times April 23 2016 – Savannah Stories Part IV Squares Savannah was laid out in 1733 around four open squares, each surrounded by four residential (“tything”) blocks and four civic (“trust”) blocks. The layout of a square and eight surrounding blocks was known as a “ward.” The original plan (now known as […]

Life and Island Times April 20 2016 Charles Ogle as the monster in Edison’s 1910 Kinetogram Frankenstein Show me how to live In the early dawn Slowly moving along Couldn’t buy a second of sleep I was aching nightly under the stars I was reborn With stolen parts A smartphone in my heart Didn’t need […]