Sunday 9/29/24 The other day I FaceTimed with a certain four-year-old buddy of mine, my niece Amelia, as I was walking to Charlestown to...

Sunday 9/29/24 The strangest thing to happen to me in the entire time I've been running stairs occurred yesterday at the Bunker Hill...

Friday 9/27/24 An entry about stairs before doing something very unpleasant pertaining to stairs and several editors at Bloomsbury, which...

Friday 9/27/24 Yesterday marked 3000 days without a drink. I could estimate how many drinks I might have had over those 3000 days if I...

Wednesday 9/25/24 "I've written 3 bad poems in the last week, and I love that for me." "I literally love this for you!!!!!!!" These...

Wednesday 9/25/24 I'm not proud that I've been scoreboard watching with all of the other teams in front of the Red Sox for the last Wild...

Tuesday 9/24/24 Here's why no one--including Patrick Mahomes--is going to match Tom Brady: Brady was amazing in the first half of his...

Tuesday 9/24/24 Ad-blurb: I'm a cheating coach. I help cheaters find maximum fulfillment in their infidelities, turn guilt into healthy...

Saturday 9/21/24 Someone wrote me a letter the other day in which they described publishing--and with it things like the awarding of...

Saturday 9/21/24 The Red Sox struck out twenty times last night against the Twins--tying the franchise record--and dropped to two games...

Friday 9/20/24 Salman Rushdie has never been any good at writing but Salman Rushdie has had everything handed to him because of what he's...

Friday 9/20/24 As impressive as your blank profile is, I'm afraid I'll have to pass. AI thinks I should write about "Character...

Monday 9/16/24 I don't like people who start any kind of bio with "I'm well-educated." You aren't. A person who is actually educated--as...

Sunday 9/15/24 A lot of "writers" think that writing is making content for Instagram. People who colorize things that were in black and...

Saturday 9/14/24 Every day people come here to read about J.W. McCormack of The Baffler and the terrible fiction he publishes in his...

Friday 9/13/24 It's depressing the number of people from all over the world who come to this journal to view the entry titled "Used...

Thursday 9/12/24 There are a number of artful, evocative, honestly frightening episodes of what we can call classic radio horror. I try...

Wednesday 9/11/24 Spoke to my nieces and nephew last night on FaceTime. Grammie was babysitting over at their house. They boy had to pick...

Wednesday 9/11/24 Introductions are in order. I'd mentioned writing a story that was a mess and needed a lot of work. Well, I'm...

Tuesday 9/10/24 I've been lax in logging fitness-related things. I'll be general but also cover everything more or less. Been out there...

Tuesday 9/10/24 Salvador Dali was not an artist. He was a brand. The real legacy of that brand is freshman college dorm room posters....

Tuesday 9/10/24 Good chance "Expect Delays" is finished today or tomorrow. Also a good chance it will be in The Ghost Grew Legs: Stories...

Tuesday 9/10/24 Had written the other day that I thought the Patriots had a great shot of winning their opener against the Bengals in...

Friday 9/6/24 If you're not as good as other teams, and you want to beat other teams, one thing you can do is make sure you're in better...