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The Sixth Finger

I was driving my teenage daughter and her friends to the mall and, playing off a tangent in their conversation, told them that I had had...

The Tithing Sermon

Once a year between the building funds sermon and the Catholic charities sermon and the Peter's Pence sermon would come the dreaded...

Super Freedom

1950 - Super-Freedom - A Rant in need of pruning By Blaise Bohrs, in prison It might as well have been a blundering giant, its metal head...

Little Champion

I helped my son move a bed over to his new place this afternoon, and it reminded me of when Hillary and I moved from LA to Dallas. We...

Charmer - Poem

The sweetest tunes will lure a cobra from its basket. Why does it love to bite and call it love and ask you to believe it? Ask it. I'm...

The Mall Painter's Tale

The PBS Painter's Tale Copyright 2011, Paul Hawkins * I won't tell my secrets. No landscape painter who's ever had a show on PBS ever...

Heatwave

From the draft of a novel I have been working on - a coda to "Angels and Electrons" - much to be done: From Jude’s journal: When you’re...

Aladdin's Genie

Aladdin's Genie Paul Hawkins He came to my yard sale and paid for an old toaster with $5 worth of nickels. I was asking $7 for it, but...

Poem: Flight (Smoke)

When I was a child my uncle laughed and gestured at the sky and stabbed it with his pipe and said that men could never fly like birds,...

The Nuns at Rosary School

When I was a kid at Rosary School in near north Oklahoma City in the 1970’s, we were fortunate enough to be taught by who were for the...

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