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...
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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...
From "Prometheus Fit to be Tied"
When Ernest tried to transcribe their conversation from memory years later, everything he could come up with was slightly off: "Do you...
Ode to a Minor Argument
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...
The Rise and Fall of my Tank Scooter
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...
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
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...
In Prison
In Prison: A Dream Vision Copyright 2011 Paul Hawkins * * ---------------------- Note from the author: This story came into my head...
From “ Blaise Bohrs’ Last Act and Coda”
Dedication: To all humankind, Past, Present and Future, with hopes I have not left anyone out. List of Illustrations Jacob’s ladder...
Revolution, Utopia and Mary Poppins
Here’s a brief trip that I thoroughly believe in: The elaborate rooftop chimney sweep dance in "Mary Poppins" always moves me more than...
RIP: Memory of a Beautiful Woman
PS, I just discovered through photos that, at our wedding, Hillary carried a bouquet of red lilies with white stripes, different than the...
Stockyards, Supertramp, Urban Cowboys and the Banking Collapse
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....
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...
Excerpt from "A Quiet Place of One's Own"
—------- 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...
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...
Growing up in Gatewood and the Plaza District
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...
Sears, Sodom and Gomorrah
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...
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