Friday 5/29/20 In publishing and academia, you see people at a great remove from reality. They frequently have no idea what purpose is, what hardship is, wha...

Thursday 5/28/20 I had an essay on moving that was a mess--it must have been like 8000 words long. Diced it down today, to, I don't know, 3500 words. Along w...

Wednesday 5/27/20 I told Emma that if I had to go upstairs and pick her up and carry her outside, we were going to the Starbucks because this child has not b...

Wednesday 5/27/20 Sunday marked 1449 days without a drink, or 207 weeks, or one week shy of four years. I mentioned that to my sister while I was walking bac...

Friday 5/22/20 I was thinking about something: one of the first baseball games I ever went to--it may have been the very first--was Carl Yastrzemski's farewe...

Thursday 5/21/20 I have these hurricanes of energy, but they are difficult to sustain. It is something I need to become far better at. It is hard to do anyth...

Wednesday 5/20/20 Sadly, the baby bird from yesterday died. Emma texted me to say she didn't know what to do with it and the flies were bothering it--though ...

Wednesday 5/20/20 I have a lot to get to today, I'm trying to be quick about this, and just get caught up on here. Yesterday and Monday I ran three miles eac...

Wednesday 5/20/20 Here is a new way to think about something. Let us call it a twist. There is nothing harder in the world than writing. To write artfully. I...

Wednesday 5/20/20 I read a news story about a man who identified and monitored the activities of a pedophile in his community. The pedophile had abused and d...

Tuesday 5/19/20 I'm not going to put up too much of this on here, but I will give a preview of the children's book I am writing, which is called, Silas Beave...

Monday 5/18/20 From "Restoration Man: Bob Dylan's Long Songs and the Art of the Turn On." *** Like many high school swains—or would-be swains—I was not unacc...

Friday 5/15/20 It's nine in the morning. It was a year ago today that Buried on the Beaches came out. Today is Emma's sixteenth birthday. Filled out a card f...

Thursday 5/14/20 Just ran three miles. New Wall Street Journal op-ed here on how it might not be a terrible thing if there's no sports for the remainder of 2...

Thursday 5/14/20 Heading out for a run, wanted to get this up quickly, as I've mentioned it a time or two--compendium of some of the best hockey games ever p...

Tuesday 5/12/20 * I wrote a short story yesterday called "Under Benches," for which my nephew gave me the idea. (Some of you saw the work with a different ti...

Friday 5/8/20 I've written nearly 30,000 words this week. The sports op-ed that was supposed to run in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday will be running nex...

Monday 5/4/20 I linked to this episode of X Minus One in a recent post, but I'm going to put it up here all by itself. I will be writing about it, as it's th...

Monday 5/4/20 Have started a piece this AM on "St. James Infirmary." Should be able to sell it, will do it with alacrity then finish Beatles feature, finish ...

Sunday 5/3/20 This is the entry from the other day. *** Isn't this nice? It's the start of an essay I'm writing on the Beatles' Let It Be album and Let It Be...