by Paul Stokstad | Mar 21, 2018 | archives, improv, Personal
From about 2012
by Paul Stokstad | Mar 17, 2018 | essay, Literary, Personal
The 50 year reunion (Class of 1968) is coming up for my two high schools, Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls (I was there K-10) and Lincoln HS in Des Moines (11th and 12th grade). I’ll be attending both reunions, the CF one in June, and the DM one in...
by Paul Stokstad | Feb 17, 2018 | Future Humans, Personal, Poetry, Thoughts en Passant
It may seem surprising but when I got this house I didn’t know it was right next to the Grand Canyon I got here at night, after long travel in other states and other stories and this was to be my last stop It was only some years later that I learned that this...
by Paul Stokstad | Jan 1, 2018 | Cats, Personal
Our cats arrived pre-named, and so we had little to say about that. I didn’t feel bound to the previous monikers, but was outvoted early. To me names that would be more appropriate for Roxie and Ted would be something that implied explorer or lightning bolt on the Ted...
by Paul Stokstad | Jan 1, 2018 | Cats, Personal
For a somewhat PETA-flavored person, having a pet is a complicated topic. Its not hard to come up with flaws in the model. Pets of course eat meat as a habit. That has to come from somewhere. And if they are cats, they are born predators – of mortal danger to anything...
by Paul Stokstad | Jun 24, 2017 | Personal, Poetry, Thoughts en Passant
There is a cost in growing older than 10, than 27 than 47, or more, because You never know when tears may fall over a lost one eyed rabbit over a shy girlfriend moved to Osceola over a marriage drifting off to San Francisco There is a cost in adding experience to...
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