Tuesday 8/20/24 My sense is the Patriots want Drake Maye to be their starting quarterback and are trying to help bring that about. You...

Sunday 8/18/24 Yesterday I spoke to my mom who had babysat my nephew and nieces the night before and would be babysitting them again that...

Sunday 8/18/24 Something a bit different before I get back to it. A couple pieces by me--a feature and op-ed--on Miles Davis's Kind of...

Sunday 8/18/24 It's kind of staggering how inventive Elvis's Sun sides are. Today, in the age of imbecility, people want to be all, "He...

Friday 8/16/24 I have to say that it pleases me that the greatest story ever written about a cat--which is "What the Mouse Knew"--was...

Friday 8/16/24 The Red Sox had their worst loss of the season on Wednesday night. My mouth hung open as I watched. There are too many...

Thursday 8/15/24 Had a long, big day out with the kids and Kara yesterday, as they wrapped up their three-day visit to Boston. On...

Wednesday 8/14/24 I've written a lot over the course of this Red Sox season about the play of Jarren Duran and what I thought was his...

Tuesday 8/13/24 Lot to account for, little of it is going to happen right now, because there's so much to fit in and I have to move. Kids...

Monday 8/12/24 Want to do another prose off with another story in Conjunctions that editor Bradford Morrow, with that meat cube of a...

Saturday 8/10/24 Ah, Bradford Morrow. Quite the guy, Bradford Morrow. I have something upcoming about him--he's the editor of...

Saturday 8/10/24 This is how the new week begins. I've never written a letter to the person to whom a letter like this would go, despite...

Friday 8/9/24 Fitness accounting. On Thursday and Friday of last week the Bunker Hill Monument was closed because of the heat index....

Friday 8/9/24 A letter. *** Hello. It is rather early in the morning. I have a lot to do today, but I wanted to send along a few words...

Friday 8/9/24 Something I've learned from running stairs: You have a relationship with the stairs you run. You are not passing by,...

Thursday 8/8/24 Below is a letter sent by me, on Sunday, July 14, 2024, to Haaris Naqvi, director of scholarly and student publishing at...

Thursday 8/8/24 People now talk about "the algorithm" as people once talked of God. That's not me saying God or the concept of God ought...

Wednesday 8/7/24 Every day, I start work at an hour most would consider very early. Some days, I start the day before. In between writing...

Tuesday 8/6/24 People have a desperate need for control, but usually it's a deleterious, or illusory, form of control. We see how they...

Friday 8/2/24 The following is a letter sent on Thursday, July 11, 2024 to Melinda Lewis, editor of The Smart Set , with Erica Levi...

Thursday 8/1/24 The three most basic questions every writer should ask themselves with anything they write or before writing anything:...

Thursday 8/1/24 This is just a peek into what goes into writing if it's going to be done well. I'm going to use an example from one of...

Wednesday 7/31/24 There's a homeless man who's been sleeping in North Square. Lately I've also been seeing him a lot at a cafe I go to....

Wednesday 7/31/24 Problems, problems, problems. The other day I alluded to some problems with this blog. Obviously this blog is...