The Backstroke

My specialty was the backstroke,that perhaps because I associated it least with drowning,my head above water the entire time.I would … More

To Be at Sea

I’d like to finish round and glossy with some good I’ve done.Is any excuse good enough in the end for … More

Whether the news affected her, he couldn’t say for sure, never knowing that deeper, secretive view her heart had taken … More

Frances Silverwood and David Lindemanused my home, Pacific Heights,in their 1919 song, “Honolulu I Am Coming Back Again.” Commissioned to … More

All nature towers over and around us, ancient forests and hills ever surround us, the moon and stars and endless … More

If you’re like me, you’d wish you had a super power at birth, of course used for good, not for … More

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

His plane had arrived late. Too late to ride the party bus. Sipping his tea, he watched the old woman … More

My childhood friend tried to claim the sky belonged to him. As we sat there on the lānai, looking out … More

I have been to the Bristol bus terminal enough times now to have lost count. Not a huge number of … More

Hanging up, I thought then, at that instant,because I was absolutely sure, 19-year old certain,the world would be shot full … More

You appear to glide secret keeper of the third world swim beneath leaves scattered about the water’s surface second world … More

I would say or do anything to get out of this situation. Hey, I see clothes fluttering on the line … More

A fairy tale convict, restrained in her tower cell, scratching those long, thin lines, doleful exercise, the shaky ones that … More

The first time I traveled there, a lengthy journeyall the way from Hawai‘i, I was alreadyan old man, had long … More

When he came to, he was in the dark. Calling out and receiving no response, he figured he was there … More

Last Friday, brightly believing that I’d now become immune to Covid because of finally receiving the first of two Pfizer … More

I’ve been in the graphic design game for many years. My successes, when they’ve occurred, have been noteworthy. Ten years … More

I have suspicions about the last ghost in my housewho does not haunt me, but might have done the washand … More

There is nowhere else to go, all the doors and windows are locked, so I sit here on the stairs, … More