I'm sorry I bought the Country Boy Biscuits With sausage I did not know we already had a full box Of Jimmy Dean biscuits. With sausage. I...

This occurred to me - love you: Hillary put up with a lot of shit from me. When we were living in Moore 15-20 years ago, I decided I...

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...

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...

In Prison: A Dream Vision Copyright 2011 Paul Hawkins * * ---------------------- Note from the author: This story came into my head...

Dedication: To all humankind, Past, Present and Future, with hopes I have not left anyone out. List of Illustrations Jacob’s ladder...

Here’s a brief trip that I thoroughly believe in: The elaborate rooftop chimney sweep dance in "Mary Poppins" always moves me more than...

I remember the time I was working in Duncan, Oklahoma and she had moved out to Los Angeles to work for Nichiman Graphics who did 3-D...

In the late 1980’s - 1990’s I liked club music. We had a few nice live music clubs in OKC, like VZD’s on Western, and some near campus....

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 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...

—------- His room had been turned into a hospital room. The man lay in his bed with an oxygen pump beside him. A niece was staying with...

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,...

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...

I grew up in the Gatewood neighborhood in Oklahoma City but it wasn’t in the middle of regentrification back then (1970’s). It was lower...

I worked at the old Sears on 23rd and Penn in Oklahoma City during the early-mid 80’s. Rumor had it the top floor was a bordello for...

White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...

In The Great Gatsby, mobster Meyer Wolfsheim wore cufflinks made from human molars. Just to paint the setting. I now realize that when I...

I was a kid at St Francis, that downtown parish founded in the early 20th century originally a mission church to the whole Indian...