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Escape from LA
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...
Paul Hawkins
Jun 9, 20232 min read
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A Rock and Roll Indignity
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...
Paul Hawkins
May 25, 20231 min read
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Trying to Sleep in the Hospital: A Rant
OK, one last post for tonight. The subject: trying to sleep in the hospital. First of all the bed is extremely uncomfortable. Second, you...
Paul Hawkins
May 25, 20231 min read
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From Blaise Bohrs’ Coda, Continued
Part IV The Present: By Marguerite, Filipino soccer mom, from the barrio, Padre’s parish secretary, after Blaise returned to the...
Paul Hawkins
May 23, 20235 min read
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Crossing from Cozumel to Playa
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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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Faith and the Ford Focus Wagon
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...
Paul Hawkins
Mar 11, 20231 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Jan 30, 20232 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Jan 5, 20233 min read
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Ode to a Minor Argument, in the Manner of William Carlos Williams
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....
Paul Hawkins
Aug 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Aug 30, 20221 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Aug 30, 20221 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Aug 28, 20221 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Aug 10, 20229 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 2, 20222 min read
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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....
Paul Hawkins
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 1, 20223 min read
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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...
Paul Hawkins
Feb 26, 20222 min read
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