Steven's Stories

Antipolo, Philippines, c. 1984 The monkey was eating sticks. They didn't look very delicious to me, but hey, if that's what floats t...

October 28, 1999, I was in college and had a shocking epiphany that I couldn't think of a single poem that used the word discombobulated...

This past Wednesday I posted about doing a  word of the year rather than New Years resolutions. My words for 2023 are Beginnings and Sunris...

I wrote the following poem April 8, 2002 following a difficult event. (Interestingly, I don't even recall what event that was, but my yo...

January 6 has been a fairly eventful day throughout history. In his novel Notre-Dame de Paris  (translated into English as The Hunchback of ...

I wrote the following poem August 7, 2002, after visiting the fish ladder at Seattle's  Hiram M. Chittenden Locks . Watching through the...

Forget the former things;     do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!     Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am mak...

Between 2018 and 2020, I was on the blogging team for All Things Broadway , one of the most popular Broadway groups on Facebook. As their bl...

Part 2 of my New York blog... Skyscrapers, taken in Central Park "When we left off last night, the hideous dragon had carried the maid ...

  Manhattan, taken from the Staten Island Ferry All my life I have wanted to visit New York. Since childhood I have been a fan of Broadway. ...