Taken

The convertible top was seven years old now. Under good conditions, Chris figured it would have held up for many … More

For a Minute or Two, Maybe

I did not know what weather meant until I went to Wisconsin.Winter in Hawai‘i, more rain. Summer, more heat.Spring and … More

Reflecting on you and the lake ice, I watched how it broke upin wintertime, huge blocks working against each otheras … More

Always a favorite of minethat last meal with youwriting about it repeatedlyhow we dined at McDonald’sFilet-o-Fish and friesthe grandest of … More

Okay, I see the title of this one is Air Force Research Laboratory, Aero-Effects Laboratory optical metrology system and performance. … More

Always my favorite, reliving this, under the Golden Arches, every single Filet-o-Fish, no, really, if you could have been here … More

The hole in the snowbank was deep, and as I peered into it, I imagined I was looking at some … More

Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More

Beware, I’d heard, the staring into it too long, excessive water gazing made much of by him, for you may … More

It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an … More

During the last ice age, everything seemed possible. It was a fine time, flexible for me, far from home, shivering … More

I feel you off-hand in my pocket just now,jingle your magic among the loose change,finger the coin of your clever … More

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing … More

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when … More

It is 114 degrees, noon, and I step out onto Langdon, stealthy, my eyes darting everywhere, see someone coming, sit … More

My first winter in Madison The coldest winter since they began keeping track The temperature plummeting into the -60s with … More

We’d known each other, worked together in the record store, for nearly six months already. By the time she came … More

It’s hard,the forever of never.I’d love to stay completely absorbed in the present,but I think of you now and then, … More

Quiet practice I considered a courtesy.The gesture of a considerate neighbor. The walls in this apartment complex are thin.Sometimes I … More