Friday 7/5/24 The other day, my mom was watching my sister's three kids for a couple hours while my sister went out and did something....

Friday 7/5/24 I thought the Red Sox had a really gutsy win down in Miami yesterday to complete their sweep of the Marlins before heading...

Thursday 7/4/24 I get a lot done when I say, "Okay, have at it." For instance: Yesterday I wrote an 800 word op-ed, wrote two entries on...

Wednesday 7/3/24 C: I'm looking at a Carolyn Kuebler short story. C: These people really write--at best--like someone doing their first...

Wednesday 7/3/24 People like to say that actions speak louder than words. You are also told, though, that the pen is mightier than the...

Tuesday 7/2/24 Other writers shouldn't influence you as a writer. Inspire--fine. That's different. When you start dropping those names, I...

Monday 7/1/24 Things can move very quickly from someone thinking they're getting away with something to "Oh God, what have I done?" It's...

Monday 7/1/24 This is a letter I wrote and sent on March 15, 2023. I'm putting it in this record so that I can link to it in an future...

Sunday 6/30/24 Today marks 2912 days, or 416 weeks, or eight years, without a drink. It's actually more than that, but I miscounted along...

Friday 6/28/24 M.R. James's 1904 ghost story, "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," is his best in part because of how...

Friday 6/28/24 The other day I heard someone whose job it is to talk about baseball pompously declare, "To me the All-Star Game is for...

Friday 6/28/24 More work yesterday on "Dead Thomas" for There Is No Doubt: Story Girls. You can't tell how much time has passed between...

Thursday 6/27/24 A way to look at the world is thusly: You know that kid in your class at school who was an idiot? He was loud. He wasn't...

Wednesday 6/26/24 That guy in a Western who says something like, "I'm going to dance on your grave," to the other guy before they have a...

Tuesday 6/25/24 Phone rang this morning. It said "home Mom" so I answered, and when I did so I was greeted by a voice that said, "Hi...

Tuesday 6/25/24 More big games for Jarren Duran as the Sox first won their series over the Reds on Sunday and then came home to take the...

Tuesday 6/25/24 Don't be up to no good and you're less likely to get hurt. On the weekend, the Bunker Hill Monument is full of...

Monday 6/24/24 I'm trying to watch Oppenheimer. I find myself actually laughing at how inept it is, how juvenile. How can you make...

Sunday 6/23/24 I've spent the morning working on "Go and Come Back." It's outstanding. Truly, truly outstanding. Required reading for...

Sunday 6/23/24 A couple of weeks ago I saw a post a woman made on social media regarding the amount of degrees she had and which were...

Saturday 6/22/24 Worked on several short stories. Really need to pick up the pace and put more time in, too. Walked five miles, ran...

Saturday 6/22/24 She had a thing for cucumbers. Growing them, eating them, knowing when a cucumber was on the cusp of going bad and...

Saturday 6/22/24 Four of the five starting pitchers for the 1980 Oakland Athletics threw a fourteen inning complete game that year. Not a...

Saturday 6/22/24 One thing bad writers like to do in order to try and sound arty and fool the kind of people who are looking to be fooled...