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 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 third 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 set the scene. 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...

I do not have a mission anymore, No raison d'etre or great quest. I'm counting on the Divine Physician to restore My compass to true...

copyright 2022, Paul Hawkins 1933, the John L. Sullivan Lounge of the Hotel Roosevelt, San Juan, the Philippines. "Ooh, I want the...

"If we say that Atticus Finch meets Gatsby in a tale told by L. Frank Baum, it's not to decry the originality of this book, but only to...

copyright 2011, Paul Hawkins Truth and Word restored the end to means. The Past, suspended, held without decay. Delay replaced diversion,...

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

https://artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/19th-century-landscape-the-pastoral-the-picturesque-and-t I have been reading about the...

I had to cut this out of "Angels and Electrons" because it interrupted the pacing, but I like it. I wrote it in 2012 but as always I was...