Michael Hawes4 days ago13 min readEssaysLast Of The Starched KhakisHow I learned to bridge the inter-generational empathy gap between co-workers in a variety of employment scenarios using Bobcat Logic.
Michael HawesSep 2612 min readEssaysCounting CreeksA little talk about aging and dentistry in the North Shore Mountains and how my wisdom tooth came to rest on Crown Mtn.
Michael HawesSep 243 min readEssaysBåtbyggaren StrandHistory, by necessity, contains many of the devices of fiction; just as fiction cannot help but to include large doses of actual history.
Michael HawesSep 135 min readEssaysRiding The BulletFruits and vegetables, late-night TV, marketing 101 and the archaeology of food porn.
Michael HawesSep 815 min readEssaysOn Women and PhilosophersAbout the dual unmasking of the underlying temerity of women and the underlying timorousness of men.
Michael HawesAug 227 min readEssaysA Maltese Black UmbrellaA Mediterranean lady helps me uproot a childhood fear.
Michael HawesAug 1113 min readEssaysThe Courage To Be ExaminedThe benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.
Michael HawesJul 198 min readEssaysA Mother PelicanA look at a real Louisiana Man and what he accomplished with common sense, decency and personal fortitude.
Michael HawesJul 612 min readEssaysAcipencer Transmontanus LanguidaPondering 100 million year old fish, the “Great Inbetweenium”, Chinese graveyards, the Rivers Fraser and Meander and the tedium of luxury.
Michael HawesApr 1517 min readEssaysCircumambulations (of a tall americano)On 'twirling sunwise' and a magical Nepalese widdershins bear. A hop farm worker looks at etymology.
Michael HawesMar 97 min readEssaysAfter The CrowsExamining the parallax of progress through the generationally distorted lens of history.
Michael HawesFeb 1217 min readEssaysSlain By IncongruityExamining Thomas Hobbes’ epic book Leviathan through the electric mist with some honoured guests.
Michael HawesJan 2210 min readEssaysTalking ApholiticsOK, OK. Let’s talk politics. Stella!!! Ants, aphids and dandelions.
Michael HawesJan 712 min readEssaysAlternatives For The Psychotropically ShyAn egregious look at ayahuasca, modern life and ego death.
Michael HawesJan 13 min readEssaysMaking Dignity PossibleOn the relationship between our hearts, guts and brains.
Michael HawesNov 11, 20246 min readEssaysThey Share Without Being TrainedLooking back through a voyage of thirty-nine years. The journey hasn’t changed me much and now I have a ship’s cat.