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...

Friday 9/6/24 The air. The leaves. November. Reading William Sloane's To Walk the Night . Walking along the Chestnut Hill Reservoir on...

Friday 9/6/24 It was almost as if Fleer cards were trying to be ugly there for a while. The Fleer aesthetic was one of drabness,...

Wednesday 9/4/24 There's an episode of the radio program Gunsmoke  where Matt Dillon (William Conrad), talking to Chester (Parley Baer),...

Wednesday 9/4/24 It is autumn now, or at least what I consider autumn, so we will talk a bit about ghost stories (not that it has to be...

Wednesday 9/4/24 There's no way anyone thinks I'm stupid enough to not know what they're up to when they're up to no good, so how stupid...

Tuesday 9/3/24 I had nightmares last night that had me truly shaken up upon awaking. Unsettled and disturbed. I stayed up watching the...

Monday 9/2/24 We'll come back to this later. But this is the first sentence of "Get Yourself a Horse Cock," which is for Become Your Own...

Monday 9/2/24 Higher education is being told what to look at because you didn't know what to look at on your own. And usually it's not...

Sunday 9/1/24 A friend's daughter's friend's mother--and the mother's boyfriend--were found murdered the other day. They were shot...

Saturday 8/31/24 I had mentioned doing this many months ago, I believe, but I'm only getting around to doing it now, but here's my list...

Saturday 8/31/24 An observation: It's convenient--easy--for people to say that who a person allows in their life is a reflection on how...

Saturday 8/31/24 I incorrectly wrote the other day that the Red Sox had lost five in a row when technically they had only lost four in a...

Saturday 8/31/24 Heard the awful news about Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau yesterday when I was on my way to Charlestown. Then later I...

Friday 8/30/24 And I won't even be doing this one, it seems. *** Greetings. So: Had been planning to pitch you an Oasis piece circa now...

Friday 8/30/24 There is so much mental unwellness in the world. Mental health, across the board, has never been in so dire a place as it...

Thursday 8/29/24 Are there two more narcissistic, egotistical words than "My truth"? Can anyone actually be a person anymore, or is...

Wednesday 8/28/24 I find it almost impossible to take anyone seriously. Sports are so simple compared to the actually complex things, and...