Good Riddance

Our local theaters do good work, bringing drama into our lives. Usually when I go, I’m happy, but this was … More

Tourist

Tourist I’m walking the neighborhoods of this small Scottish village. It’s too tiny to be called a “town”; maybe it’s … More

The Hours

The first time I read Mrs. Dalloway I was quite young, 21 maybe. And I was struck by her age, 51, and … More

The Sublime

It’s a sight I used to anticipate several times a year. The area on the Big Island of Hawai‘i known … More

Happy Some Before Dawn

Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More

What Is Your Favorite Color?

I often remember who I am, and I recall past events,both recent and distant, with a fair degree of accuracy.If … More

Each Journey a First

The idea is knowing I can go somewhere, and I amcreating the first pattern of steps no one has ever … More

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

When To Come

What does it really mean to arrive fashionably late?What, you’re too busy with your important life to show up on … More

Withdrawal

You have seen the way this hand withdraws before, the slow move away and fall of silence layering into sand, … More

And in our battle, they were taken

Both sides said a cross of little and big things to each other, and given the way the conflict played … More

Saving Face

That is some face framed by snaking black hair right behind the glass highly visible precisely to be so seen … More

Little Birds, Big Show

Here’s my rough draft for today, Thursday 01.27.22. Little Birds, Big Show This morning on my walk around the Ala … More

The Music of Marriage

Here’s my rough draft for today, Tuesday 01.25.22 The Music of Marriage A friend of mine whose husband collects recordslaments … More

To Cover or Not To Cover (Just in Case)

Remember the first time you damaged your phone dropping it?I’d never dropped my phone at all ever, so the first … More

Very Superstitious?

Here’s my rough draft for today, Sunday 01.23.22. Very Superstitious? I toss the salt over my shoulder, but I never … More

This Sweet Work’s Worth

It’s coming again, like some slouching beast. I see all the drooling signs in the stores, the ones that make … More

Another Friend

Here’s my rough draft for today, Thursday 01.20.22 Another Friend He was a ball hog. You should have seen him … More

Giving up Coffee for Good

At the destruction of the world I sipped coffee that was too hot. Like everyone else, I’ll guess, I didn’t … More

It’s ending a lot to look like Christmas

Nordstom finally took down their Christmas window displays. They’re not the last store at Ala Moana Shopping Center to do … More