Doctor's Office

(Friday December 20 2002) After six months of waiting for insurance reasons, I saw a doctor today... »

Really, Actually, Empty

(Friday November 15 2002 23:00) The car shuddered just a bit about halfway through first gear, hesitated »

To Be Sung On the Water

(Thursday November 14 2002 19:00) Listen: 64 kbps mp3 (old FM radio quality, 5-10 minutes download »

Voting Resources

(Monday November 04 2002) Voter Information Resources Project Vote Smart League of Women Voters Open »

Wheel

(Thursday October 24 2002 10:49) I saw it seperate from the car, and slowly roll off the side of the road, down an embankment... »

New Category

(Tuesday October 22 2002 20:12) Perhaps another part of this trouble I've had producing writing over the »

Substance

(Monday October 21 2002 20:11) Substance over style. I suddenly think of this as an algebraic expression, »

I think

(Saturday October 19 2002) Once or twice a month is less frequent than I had hoped to use this forum... »

Sharp Cars

(Saturday October 12 2002 20:49) I've never owned a truck, never owned a vehicle I could use to pull and »

The Blue Guitar

(Friday October 11 2002 19:07) "You do not play things as they are... they're changed upon the blue guitar... »

Lame Apology

(Monday September 23 2002) All right, all right. I haven't written you. I haven't written you for a month or probably longer... »

In The End

(Tuesday September 17 2002) "In the end no one will sell you what you need, You can't buy it off the »

Career Consulting

(Thursday August 29 2002) "Did you apply for that secret agent job?" said my sister. "Which one?" I said... »

Time Value of Pizza

(Sunday August 25 2002) Two and a half hours of baking, broken down into the timing for each task, »

Stars and Grace

(Sunday August 18 2002 21:41) Stars, and against them, a circle of pine trees, tall, dark figures against the night, standing as if in council around the ampitheatre... »

The Dark Side

(Thursday August 08 2002) "Once you head down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny... »

Maybe...

(Wednesday August 07 2002) "Maybe you'll feel better if you jump in and mosh until you puke." »

Death's Radio

(Friday August 02 2002) Michael wrote. The stick began to move. He applied it to the dirt and was »

Tacos and Yard Sales

(Saturday July 20 2002 11:48) I recently had a poem published in The White Shoe Irregular, a publication I help out with from time to time... »

Yard Sales

(Saturday July 13 2002 14:15) I had nothing for breakfast except orange food. That's what Alisa offered me... »

Dream Camera Redux

(Monday July 08 2002 02:14) I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures, because my camera had fallen into the water... »

Pop Philosophy on the Wrapper of a Treat

(Thursday June 27 2002) »

Aarrg

(Friday June 21 2002) Language neurons... stiffening... creative juices... drying... must... find... »

Home

(Thursday June 13 2002) I am home. A week ago I rented a car, put most of my things in it, and »

Evening Redux

(Thursday May 23 2002 23:23) "so I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone..." It was going to be an unusual evening anyway, it just turned out different... »

A Courtship (by Ted Kooser)

(Thursday May 16 2002 18:09) There were parts of herself that were not in the mirror and those were »

One Night Homeless

(Saturday May 11 2002 12:39) The train I wanted to catch from San Luis Obispo back to Ventura left each morning at 6:35 am... »

Transportation

(Friday May 10 2002) Up until two weeks ago or so, I have been driving an old, early 1980s Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon... »

Beach House

(Sunday May 05 2002 00:42) Today, after I've had some sleep, and assuming I am able to navigate public »

A Challenge To The Official Version of Reality

(Thursday May 02 2002 13:01) [Note: I dislike spam as much as the next person, and since everybody gets »

Clarification

(Wednesday April 17 2002) "Linkin Park is a band, not a cosmology." -- Time Magazine, Jan 28 2002 »

Abridged Letter To A Friend

(Tuesday April 09 2002 23:37) Alisa, Thanks for the poem. Did I send you the thing I wrote about crickets? I can't remember... »

All Souls

(Tuesday April 09 2002 23:25) So many of them are gone yet here am I still, wandering the basement this night of the dead, killing crickets... »

When I Didn't Know Who I Was

(Friday April 05 2002 17:16) "I spent a long day sleeping on a big clean hard white bed with dirty remarks »

Progressive Observations About the Crickets with Which I Share A Room

(Thursday April 04 2002) Day 1: There seems to be a cricket in the room chirping softly and occasionally... »

Camera

(Sunday March 17 2002 23:00) I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures, because my camera had fallen into the water... »

Want to Help Stop Telemarketers?

(Wednesday March 13 2002 16:49) The FTC is taking public comments on a national "Do Not Call" list. A telemarketer »

Google My Brain

(Sunday March 10 2002 20:32) As I was hiking in Arches National Park last weekend, I was thinking Paul »

Birthday / Semantically Troubled Times

(Wednesday March 06 2002) For my birthday, I woke up on the couch to the sound of Saturday morning »

Draft of an Anniversary Poem

(Saturday March 02 2002 18:07) Each day the earth deeply, softly rolls each night that moonlit wings »

Time Warp (part I)

(Wednesday February 27 2002 10:31) This morning I walked into the bathroom in the hallway in my parents house... »

A Convenient Answer

(Saturday February 23 2002) Truth or Dare Jenga has black blocks (for truth) and red blocks (for dares)... »

Ice Sculptures

(Wednesday February 20 2002) These were taken at Provo's 2002 International Ice Carving Competition, »

No Stars

(Friday February 15 2002) Valentine's day is over. I can move What is a Flower? off of the favored, featured spot on this site... »

What is a flower?

(Tuesday February 05 2002 11:01) What is a flower?  It is a kiss from the earth to the sky  a child »

Half-Formed Thoughts

(Saturday February 02 2002 16:45) What is the difference between a half-formed thought and a full-term thought? »

What is a Free Market?

(Saturday February 02 2002) Question: what is meant by the phrase "free market"? It's a question I ask myself increasingly as I think about economics... »

Reading Human History

(Sunday January 27 2002) From a story on slashdot: On January 27, 1967, the three-man crew »

National Park Pass

(Tuesday January 22 2002) We drove up to the gate of Zion's National Park; the entry fee was $20... »

Gandalf

(Friday January 18 2002 12:44) I saw Lord of The Rings yesterday. It was a wonderful film that I could »

This is a Test

(Wednesday January 16 2002 22:03) I walked home from the local testing center after I took the GMAT today... »

My Mom Likes Sting

(Wednesday January 16 2002 20:23) Mom sings with the Mormon Tablernacle Choir. She's an excellent soprano, well-versed in choral literature... »