Bread Alone

There were no more good reasons I could come up with, no more desperate excuses I could dream up for…

Walk This Way

She said that the way I walked was funny. I asked why, so she demonstrated. She swung her shoulders and…

I’m happy to say that the 7th episode of my Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on Amazon Kindle’s new…

Anytime you have the chance to see a blue blossom, be thankful for it, maybe bless it. Blue is the…

Garfield likes lasagna like I like lasagna, and while I can’t finish a full tray in one gulp, I can…

Among other jobs, my dad sold insurance. Salesman that he was, he would go anywhere necessary to visit clients, and…

It would be twelve more years before my father quit smoking. While he was no longer at his college fighting weight,…

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

Today was a good walking day, 3.9 miles on my hill, harder going up, much easier coming down. Some days…

Sheryl brought him to our party, Vern, a guy she’d met in her Psych class. We were playing Telegraph or…

I was trimming the mango tree that afternoon, a long time ago now. My soul is sick without you, and…

I replaced a faucet set on one of my sinks, the old one having ceased to function. I don’t know…

If it’s Saturday night, you can always find me at my favorite bar. The Watering Hole has been here on Hotel…

Begin with beer. Talk loud over the noise. Try the soup. Talk about work. Eat a burger. Talk about family.…

The band, two guys on guitar, and the female singer, played four nights a week, and I came to hear…

For the life of me I couldn’t find my way back to my room, each minute another turned page in…

I’m happy to say that the 6th installment of my Hawaiʻi-based crime story is now available on the Amazon Kindle’s…

You cover the hole in your throat with your finger to tell me the story, the odd scratchy vibrato striking…

That was a long time ago and I’d never known about it. None of our mutual friends had mentioned it…

He wasn’t the type who’d say, This is my old lady. He introduced my mom by her nickname only, never…