so there I was a peaceful little buddhist boy I prefer the term W.A.S.A.B.I or white anglo saxon buddhist individual getting ready for my new school I mentioned offhandely that I was gay and that all hell broke loose I can't changing...
Once I flew through a thunder/lightening storm in Nebraska, naked, in a 1948 Stinson 4-seater cloth airplane with my schizo-affective (schizophrenic plus bi-polar) boyfriend - who was a 3-pack a day chain smoker. I...
A humorous poem and performance about the father I'd want to be, the conversations I hope to have, and the son that males me proud by always asking questions...no matter how tired I get of answering them......
An indignant victim stood face to face with the brazen hardened robber who had, not so long ago, relieved him of his property. They were surrounded by a curious and expectant mob. It not only annoyed the Ivy league educated, well...
My evangelical parents kept me very well protected during my teenage years. My curfews were ridiculous, my boyfriends were always well informed about my father's gun collection, and my ass was in church every Sunday. Normally, I...
One thing I love about the art of storytelling, radio, and this platform is its ability to give voice to those who don't always have a voice. With that said, I'm a former skateboarder. I say former because once I was at this six...
I used to cruise a lowrider
A firme ’63 Bel Air
Everything was original
Except the hydros
I even took the pilgrimage
To Espanola, New Mexico
The lowrider capital of the world
And I got...
It was a dark, stormy night. It really was. I was an able-seaman on the S/S Ocean wizard. She was an 11,000 foot oil tanker and the last of the American tramp steamers. Once, one of 3 sister ships that were the largest in the world. She...
