Playing Old

When it’s time for me to pretend I’ve grown old,I’ve decided the most important thingI’ll need to be able to … More

Flight

We’re off now, I guess, with your leaving here,since I’m pretty sure that ends whatever this was.O‘ahu is too small … More

The Police, I think about them all the time these days.This morning I’m standing in Starbucks,where they’ve removed the social … More

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

I see it everywhere nowadays, some people becoming whom they were born to be, but so many others leaving the … More

So we begin with sunny skies, a cartoon-like rainbow,scattered puffy clouds, the cotton ball kind,with all the flora and fauna … More

After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down … More

Each time I speak, every utterance, albeit nearly imperceptibly,the voices of my ancestors equally sound on my tongue,treading my thoughtful … More

The feelings were hard, no matter what you said. Maybe not on your side, but they were on mine. What … More

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

My first visit to Tate Britain, walking through the entrance, takes my breath away. It would necessitate much running if … More

Like a dog in years, a wet cold perfectly upholstered nose, long body sleek curled up here before the fire, … More

So I see that Daniel Craig will be Macbeth on Broadway. But before they settled on James Bond, I hear … More

Captain Kauhane let Chan and Yamamoto know that the coroner, Hank Lee, had informed him there was no immediate way … More

For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More

CAST Old McGann (MCGANN): A smart old cockroach who has learned all the survival techniques passed down over the last … More

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

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

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

It’s an old turntable with a speaker horn, the kind you wind up,what my grandmother used to call a Victrola,even … More