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...

Wednesday 7/31/24 I saw a stat some time ago that 70% of children brush their teeth for less than two minutes. I'm going to say that...

Wednesday 7/31/24 What do people do to themselves over the weekends? I find myself asking that question on Monday mornings as I run the...

Wednesday 7/31/24 Avoid anyone who writes or uses the term "AF." It's highly unlikely that anything positive can come of knowing them and...

Wednesday 7/31/24 Quick fitness accounting. Walked five miles, did 100 push-ups, and completed five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill...

Wednesday 7/31/24 This is about the earliest you can say this, being the final day of July, but my expectation for the 2024 Patriots is...

Wednesday 7/31/24 There's an implied heading to this entry of "I'd prefer to be wrong" but we're here on the last day of July and I'm...

Tuesday 7/30/24 Much-needed win for the Red Sox last night by a score of 14-7 over the Seattle Mariners. They got out to a 10-1 lead. A...

Sunday 7/28/24 I'm getting this Tdap vaccine tomorrow. I'm overdue. I don't need the lockjaw. Is that what you get when you're pricked by...

Sunday 7/28/24 My arms have become pretty big. It's just the push-ups. Or I should say, doing them correctly after not doing them...

Saturday 7/27/24 I estimate that I used to have 150 drinks per week. That's a real number, unfortunately. It could get as high as 200. I...

Saturday 7/27/24 It's very early. Working. I finished "Pass" the other day. This morning I finished "Tidy Sums." It’s always two plus two...

Friday 7/26/24 I'm floored by the amount of talent some radio actors possessed in what they did. The range of their characters and...

Thursday 7/25/24 This is what people do now by the way. The go online and perform sobriety. It becomes their shtick, their business...

Thursday 7/25/24 You could argue, I guess, that people who write, "Prove me wrong" ("Aaron Judge is the MVP. Prove me wrong," "Chivalry...

Wednesday 7/24/24 The solution to one's problems is very unlikely to be taking to social media and enumerating them, especially as so...

Wednesday 7/24/24 The other day when I was coming back from helping with that move I learned about something that happened when my nieces...

Wednesday 7/24/24 Yesterday I saw some people on a hockey history discussion forum partaking of a fun activity: Trying to determine the...