As a girl she used to skate in the shadow of that school and convent, the steel wheels of her roller skates striking sparking twilight,...

Part 3 of X New York City observations, essentially related in a tangential way to my journey from the prairie to see Rick’s gig: The JFK...

From the book I’m working on - something to offend everyone, an exercise in paranoia:   ———-   The substratum of disaster was laid with...

There is no place more depressing than a #SpiritHalloween Shop, always in a vacant storefront in a dying mall and air conditioning...

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qkToJutCcG0VUqSlsLR21C6J5nsO-p6T/view?usp=drivesdk It was an angry morning that threatened a storm...

The Lawyer Dear kids, I am still in Philly, and the lawyer’s office is in a goddamn huge building at least 50 stories tall and taking up...

A fragment in progress, from decades ago --------------------- (Authors note: F Scott Fitzgerald had a famous short story called...

Chapter 1 Dear Professor [X], esteemed friend across continents and colleague and expert in Macro-Plastics (giant robots), as promised, I...

"Get me $40 in marked ones. I have some very minor criminal activity to investigate." Such is a typical excerpt from the long-lost...

From my ongoing Readers’ Digest “Adventures in Suburbia” series. While swimming with my kids at the public pool yesterday, I found a...

Copyright 2024, Paul Hawkins Excerpted from the Omnibus of my lit over several decades. Prometheus Unwound: https://a.co/d/iIfthpO ————...

I think that for this year‘s Father’s Day I will record a short video sermonette entitled “What is a Father?”, designed to match the most...

A poem from 2 decades ago. I am working to put together a small volume of my few poems and humorous short-shorts, led in by something...

Right in the middle of downtown Norman yesterday, as we were driving home from church, we saw this very noble hawk swoop down from the...

Just got back from getting my haircut, and my stylist (I guess men have stylists) was the happiest, funniest, most insightful yardbird...

John Dos Passos' prose poem "When You Try to Find the People" (1948) appealed to an already existing interest of mine in radio . My dad...

Copyright 2023 Paul Hawkins It was a big, brutish, ugly fish that might as well have been from another era. It swam in a big glass-walled...

Long but true: an experience in Cancun I want to record this before I forget. Once several years ago I was at the cheapest all inclusive...

I had forgotten that my novella "Fly Whither, Finch" included heart wrenching passages from a non-existent women's novel:...

Two points: 1-Jack Benny was one of the greatest comedians ever, gentle, with perfect timing, often letting his guests have the laugh at...