One little story for the night. When Hillary and I were living in Los Angeles, we had a lot of fun for a while, but then the smog or...

As a long-time fan of the rock super group Journey, Dave had thoroughly intended his last dying words to be an inspirational 'Don't...

OK, one last post for tonight. The subject: trying to sleep in the hospital. First of all the bed is extremely uncomfortable. Second, you...

Part IV The Present: By Marguerite, Filipino soccer mom, from the barrio, Padre’s parish secretary, after Blaise returned to the...

Memories I jotted down during the ferry crossing from Cozumel to Playa. Just a scrap of prose with no home: "Crossing to Playa made me...

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...

Many years ago I had the favorite car I’ve owned, a gun metal grey Ford Focus wagon. It does not survive in pictures but my youngest...

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

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...

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....

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 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 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...

PS, I just discovered through photos that, at our wedding, Hillary carried a bouquet of red lilies with white stripes, different than the...

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 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...