All Those Miles

Taking hits between rehearsing scenes of Oliver!Smoking all the time during dances and concertsDriving home smashed Saturday nights from Wai‘alae Drive-InDrunk … More

Under the Sun

The languor of summer days, a drop of sweat.Hit the napkin, plop on the word “miss.” It’sMezcal time here, and … More

Seeing Things

“There there there!” says Eddie, pointing through the crack in the curtain. “See what I mean?” I still don’t see … More

As We Were

There’s an enormous crowd at the tiny lookout above Halema‘uma‘u. I and Commander Williams, USN Retired, continue along the trail … More

Empty Calories

That first night without her was the longest one of your life. Those were the days you’d practice drinking gunslinger … More

Ireland Aloha

It was the moment I have wondered about on occasion, that moment when your death has reached the time it … More

Hunting for a Subject

I was sitting at the Tahitian Lānai piano barwith the actual Surgeon General of the United States,on vacation here in … More

A History with Whiskey

Since I’ve retired, I’ve looked for things to do to fill out my routine.  One thing I’d never done before … More

Mānoa Driving Lessons

Friday nights we smoke dopedrink Strawberry Hilland I give Steve driving lessons Every time we pass by her houseSteve stops … More

Never Ever Let You Go

The choice, a desperate grasp of great consequence,a hand, cramped with fisted frustration, fingers straining,reaching harder than hard burned bricks … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City

My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 18, Like Heads Through the Hourglass

Drinking alcohol was so easy now. It seemed like only yesterday, on a dull Friday or Saturday night, we’d be … More