New prose poem for everyone…. The First Step Sometimes the first step is the hardest… …even when the incline is not so steep, and the switchbacks cross your path, like the mark of zorro burned onto your ankle at a bad tattoo parlor in a tourist town, you just put on your socks, cover itContinue reading “The First Step”
Category Archives: 2016
President’s Day
Naturally some of us write more than others, by necessity and desire, but I was reading Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer last week and not coincidentally, ran across one of President Lincoln’s most impassioned texts on the power of writing. He wrote his own material, as they say nowadays, and often kept it in hisContinue reading “President’s Day”
Valentine’s Day / Piano Lounge at Wawona
Happy Valentine’s Day Early! Hey friends and family. The snow fell on Nashville again, I’m looking out the window at birds flying over a blanket of white, landing on our feeder and the sun beginning to melt the icicles clinging to the gutter. Nice. Anyways, time for a break and an early Happy Valentine’s dayContinue reading “Valentine’s Day / Piano Lounge at Wawona”
Doug Hoekstra 