Who says you can’t learnanything from video games? I got video game anointedin the very beginningof the swirling video game … More

            My ability to get my required work done still sucked pretty hard because of my idiotic break-up, thoughts of that … More

My visitor doesn’t knock on the door in the bright sunshine of midday.  I’ve never actually seen him or met him … More

Each time I fall off the ladderit’s my life almost downso I try to be carefulwhen you climbdo you not … More

It’s getting colder out hereIs why you never buyA cheap winter coatNot in WisconsinWhen you have to waitOutside the zooIn … More

Carnival time, Magic Island, 50th-StateFair 1967, the year of hard words, attackingcandy, for the dead enough to suck on, those … More

He’s carrying what looks like at least a gallon bottle.  I see the label.  Crown Royal. “I brought you a nice bottle,” … More

I spotted a man who had once loveddogs, loved lighting up the hibachi,barbecuing burgers and steaks, who oncechallenged his son, … More

My dream, sellingall my books to pay rentin Wisconsin, after the M.A.,how I bought mostof the same againstudying for the … More

“All the old ones closing down,” Grandpa says, reading paper, talking about Branches Restaurant down Mōiʻiliʻili. “Ah,”I tell um, “I … More

My neighbor across the fence says,“They just keep adding onto it,day after day, week after week, month after month.It never … More

I’ve been many placesfrom Antarctica to the top of Norwaybut I always tell folks who askafter having sung the praises of … More

contrasttoo easy a clichéapples and orangesboth fruitshave seedsgrow on treesunlike moneyhe sayshanding over my weekly breadbreathing hard for the work … More

I’ve just come from listening to Robert Cazimero do a show at the Blue Note nightclub. I’m sitting at the … More

The love of where you findthat it you findthat ityou least expect I’ve heard of that soar at the finding … More

I saw a long line of vehicleson Vineyard Boulevard yesterdaymaybe 25 cars, including a black hearseall of them with their … More

Leināʻala floats, a dream visionher smile indelible, genuine, always so gracious gliding, swaying, her hands are birds in flightelegance in their … More

We’re sitting at Sandy’s table in Leicesterwith Karen, we’re all together for the first timeone of the happiest occasions of … More

That night I tried to read the Economics text with the same intensity I read the material for my English … More

I didn’t think of myself as a stalker, but I can see now that my behavior came close.  I walked right … More