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Ack ack ack ack ack! (National Poetry Writing Month
Thought I was gonna fall off, huh? It’s still Tuesday, fool! Let’s go! *Hannibal slumps over* How did I actually forget this all day? Stupid life … Okay … lessee … ooh, this came up at dinner … Can’t...
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Manly Rites of Passage (National Poetry Writing Month)
No time to chat! Let’s get down to business … Polo shirt hangs at a funny angle,Chest of arms logo from his elementary schoolpractically on his shoulder.He holds out crumpled billswith head held...
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Day & Nite (apologies to Cole Porter and Kid CuDi)
The membrane between slumber’s comforts and harsh waking world of man is thinnest at its edges. In the moments and hours before the alarm I find the most valued, the most precious slivers of sleep....
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A Day for Accomplishments
Today was a day of accomplishments all around. At about 11:30 on Tuesday morning, while flipping between browser windows and creating websites for a Major Integrated Managed Care Organization (let’s...
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Family: Humbled by a Weekend
NOTE: I wrote this blog on September 7th and never got around to posting it. Sorry. Here goes. Hh. Well, the weekend surely gave me some strong lessons about who I am at age 37. “Humbling” might be to...
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Family: Shutterbug
My wife normally is in charge of posting photos of the kids on her blog. Why? For some reason, she thinks I only like to show pictures of the kids looking crazy … Eldest daughter's self portrait. I...
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News: Happy Guy Fawkes Day, Oscar Grant’s Family!
I’m just going to quote the article from the San Francisco Chronicle … A judge sentenced former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle today to two years in state prison for fatally shooting unarmed...
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Life: This Is Our Lives On Holiday
Today has the distinction of being three! three! three! holidays at once. What do I mean? PI DAY: 3/14 is called Pi Day based on 3, 1 and 4 being “the three most significant digits of” the...
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Poetry: Reveille [#napowrimo2011]
I am a man of rituals. Both absent minded and heavily scheduled, rituals and habits keep the trains running. This morning, between Flipboard and making a bottle full of almond milk, this came to me....
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Poetry: Black and White [#napowrimo2011]
Right. So, I’m now two days behind. I hate being behind on National Poetry Writing Month. I checked to count how many I’d done on Friday, and that clearly jinxed me. Argh. Some would say my wife...
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Poetry: The Last Outpost [#napowrimo2011]
Grrr. My wife is super sick and I’m stretched crazy thin, trying to work 8-hour day, nursemaid and babysit, plus getting up at 4AM to keep the baby from going nuts. Dude. I’m sleepy. Poem anyway. The...
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Poetry: Interrogative [#napowrimo2012]
As with last year, my plan is to dedicate Friday selections to my wonderful wife. Dedicate what? Stuff like this … There are joys with you that cannot be replicated, cannot be found elsewhere, that...
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Poetry: Daddy’s Littlest Girl [#napowrimo2012]
Gotta catch up. Dark hours of morning Prowls corridor, rubbing eyes Someone wants breakfast “Time To Wake Up, Baba” By Hannibal Tabu I’m probably staggering around like a jackass. Watching (Hulu): The...
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Poetry: Goodnight, ‘hood [#napowrimo2012]
For months, I’ve been trying to promise myself that I’d chronicle my night time ritual with our youngest daughter before I forget it in rush of growing up and everyday madness. This might be as close...
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Poetry: Scoundrel [post-#napowrimo2012]
National Poetry Writing Month is over, but once in a while, something sneaks out as a poem anyway. I used to be single gray, rain-laden cloud interceding in sunniest days. Malicious cackles, dipping...
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Fiction: Another Good Trick That I Know
I wrote this bit of flash fiction and realized I read a lot of children’s books … Taking off the stovepipe hat, the huge feline shook himself awkwardly, standing on two legs. The inside of the...
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Life: “… showed heart but got cardiac arrested …”
People often ask me “how are you” or “are you all right?” My honest answer of late has been “I don’t know.” Sitting in a doctor’s chair on Friday, I learned some of what’s happening with me. Papillary...
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Family: The Sing Along
My youngest daughter is (as of this writing) three years old. Putting her to sleep often falls to me for two main reasons: my wife (in her words) feels like shoving the baby at me when I walk in the...
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Life: Improbable Cause
I was in Target on Sunday with my toddler. I was grabbing some water for her as we headed to Kenneth Hahn Park for some kind of cook out to celebrate the wedding of a family friend. She was smiling...
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Life: Hannibal’s Latest Fender Bender
A little after noon, I was sitting in the westbound left turn lane on Pico at Alvarado in Los Angeles. I’d recently picked up my youngest daughter from her ballet school and was theoretically heading...
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