Tuesday 1/13/26 I've been doing a lousy job with everything. Really lousy. Need to turn it around. Put up a good and honest fight. By honest I mean all-out effort. I have things to get up on here from Christmas that I didn't finish or tend to at Christmas. I'm just going to do it. Not going to be tethered to/restricted by the calendar. What's the calendar really mean anyway? Besides, Christmas season used to run until Candlemass on February 2. In France people celebrate the d

Saturday 1/10/26 The computer issues look to finally be resolved, which means it's catch-up time and blow-ahead time and get things written and get written things finished time. Back and surging forward with a vengeance. The issue pertained to the Cloud. On Christmas, someone told me to put everything on my hard drive up on the Cloud. I take back-ups pretty far. I have assorted forms, as one would expect, given what I do and have produced and am creating. In addition to my mu

Friday 1/9/26 It's a playoff, a tournament, so you can't really say that Miami doesn't deserve to be where they're at, but rightly or wrongly this Hurricanes team being in the national championship game feels like a result of happenstance to me rather than being indicative of the quality of the team. I just don't think they're that strong, even relative to the field. They could very well win the national championship, though. But a team from the ACC? The weak ACC? And an ACC

Friday 1/9/26 I don't believe that people are capable any longer of being organically interested in someone else. I don't think fascination exists where we might look at someone, see what they do, who they are, observe them, and be increasingly interested, drawn to them, wish to know them. I think it's other things. Usually things a person wants/has to have that have nothing to do with a specific other person. I know a woman who got divorced. She then had to move in with her

Friday 1/9/26 What is a country? Is the United States a country? To me, it's now just a place where people live. Mostly unintelligent, uneducated, lowest common denominator, selfish, narcissistic people, with brutish, base, and corrupt elected officials who attempt to run the country for their own personal gain and to gratify their desires and satiate sick needs. Of lust, power, money, control. The goal--and the motor of their cold, unchecked, detached, inhumane, un-human psy

Thursday 1/8/26 Back when I first began running stairs in the 294-stair Bunker Hill Monument in 2016, I'd kind of just go over to Charlestown and, well, go up. That seemed like something. After all, it was a lot of stairs to the top, if you don't think in terms of what a lot of stairs is, or have much experience with big numbers of stairs. I was walking over there one time and when I was between the ball field on Atlantic and the skating rink closer to the bridge, I texted so

Wednesday 1/7/26 You see this with regularity now: An overweight person begins taking Ozempic and becomes thin. They didn't become thin on account of putting any effort into doing so. They stayed sedentary. That person then leaves their spouse because now they can get someone more attractive physically. Most people would do this if they were able to or they had the option. Love essentially doesn't exist now. Everything is transactional. Being with someone. The reason for havi

Tuesday 1/6/26 The Patriots finished with the second seed in the AFC, and that could end up working out more to their advantage than if they'd been the top seed. They play the Chargers Sunday night on Gillette (what's up with an eight o'clock start on Sunday night for Wild Card weekend?). Watching the Chargers play the Broncos on Sunday, it looked to me as if the Chargers wanted this game against New England. I'm not a huge believer in that Chargers team, their quarterback, o

Sunday 1/4/26 Dry January, like many things that people do, or purport to do, and for which they seek attention, as people lacking in substance do with nearly everything that is of no real consequence, makes little sense to me. It makes sense to me why it's popular, if that's the term one wishes to use. People are faddish because they lack in substance. But let's say you successfully pull off this Dry January challenge/goal and you go the whole month without having a drink of

Saturday 1/3/26 The biggest story in sports right now--which no one is talking about, too--is the Colorado Avalanche being 30-2-7. Do you understand how difficult it is to have only two regulation losses through thirty-nine games of an NHL season? They are on pace to have less losses than the 1977-78 Montreal Canadiens. The two best hockey players in the world are on this Avalanche team. You could be watching history right here. Team USA was eliminated from the World Juniors

Saturday 1/3/26 People say a lot of things aimed to get others--and themselves--to think how well they are doing. How content and fulfilled they are. Both out in their lives and on social media. Now, too, with social media, people post a lot of photos meant to achieve the same ends: To elbow reality out of the way and grant the stage to appearance. If appearance is all that anyone else gets, then appearance becomes...voila...what is presumed as reality. I think of much of thi

Friday 1/2/26 Typical social media post: Why people hate small talks these days when it is the key to a meaningful conversation? No matter how much of this I see, no matter how well I understand how mentally limited we now are, this never fails to blow me away regardless. That we are this way. That it's possible for humans as a species to be so mentally...little. I mean...look at that. How dumb can something that is technically a human be? How is it possible to be that dumb?

Wednesday1/1/26 I've had a single New Year's Eve in my life that I consider special or memorable. I was a young boy and my parents had gone out for the night. I don't know what I did, but I must have gotten at least a little sneaky because I stayed up later than I should have, without the person in charge of us kids being aware. I was in my parents' bedroom, watching the Bruins play the Canucks out in Vancouver. The Bruins had Barry Pederson at his best before he got injured

Thursday 1/1/26 New Year's Eve isn't a thing as it's thought of/venerated and you shouldn't care. Nothing changes when the clock strikes midnight. Grow up, get a clue. Those resolutions? You'll ditch them straight away. New Year's resolutions are like MFAs in writing--if you ever think you need them/one, you will never be that thing you say you want to be because you don't have it in you. If you did, you never would have thought along those lines. Can you imagine me ever havi

Monday 12/29/25 Drake Maye was close to perfect yesterday. What else can you say about a quarterback who goes 19-for-21 for 256 yards, five TD passes and no interceptions, for a 157 rating? Okay, the Jets are bad and on top of that they barely showed up, but it's still an NFL game. Call it a late MVP push from Maye. I don't think he can overcome the narrative/career recognition boost that Matthew Stafford has going for him/will get, but there are stats are very similar. Staff

Monday 12/29/25 I still haven't sent some of the few people I know the story for Christmas 2025. I must see where it's at. It's still the season anyway. I don't think I mentioned this--maybe I did--but my sister's family got a puppy shortly before the holiday. His name is Cody. Amelia insists that she is the dog's favorite despite the opposite probably being true. For now. She picks him up and he's getting bigger at a faster rate than she is and so he's jerked around maybe a

Saturday 12/27/25 The mind bending narcissism and brokenness of people, so many of whom are exactly like this person below, doing what they do, and nothing else save the likes of this on social media--constantly--is inescapable now and getting closer and closer being the only versions of us, the only "us," that remains. We venerate weakness, excuses, and lies to self. The virtues of today's world. Those "virtues" will make you more of a puddle than a person. A big, blob-y pud

Saturday 12/27/25 The Bunker Hill Monument opened in 1843. It's 221 feet high and has 294 stairs. Since it opened, the most amount of times anyone has gone up and down the Monument in a continuous session is twenty times. Only one person has done that. I am that person. After yesterday, I've now done so six times, with four of those times happening in this year of 2025. As has been noted, the Monument was closed as part of the government shutdown, which commenced on the first

Friday 12/26/25 Shortly after midnight on Christmas morning, I awoke and began work again on "Love, Your Mouse," which I have returned to in the early hours of this morning. It has felt like a holy experience. But that is the story. A holy experience itself. It's a humbling work, which has required all I have to give, all of my ability, all of my effort to master that ability, and the person I have worked to become, in the doing of it. I think I shall finally be finished toda

Tuesday 12/23/25 Does anybody actually have anything of any significance and value for anyone else? Or even just of honest intention? Another question: Is any aspect of our society more dominant than inauthenticity? I ask rhetorically, but there's always a statement in a question which says, "This may be possible." Hardly anyone or anything is what they or it is purported to be. You go through your day and look at this person, and this thing being sold, and this service, and

Monday 12/22/25 Drake Maye had his signature game of the season last night, and with it the signature game of his young career. The Ravens aren't a good team, but this they had something to play for, they have two guys on offense who are going to Canton, the Patriots defense has a bunch of injuries, and this was a prime time Sunday night game on the road after the Pats had lost the week before to the Bills who had won earlier in the day. Another Patriots loss and the two team

Saturday 12/20/25 I thought Alabama shouldn't have been in the college playoff and then they come back and beat Oklahoma after trailing 17-0. You never know. This year's MLB Hall of Fame ballot has to be one of the weakest ever. If we leave out the steroid guy in Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez, the only Hall of Fame-caliber player is Carlos Beltran and he's not a very exciting Hall of Famer. Andrew Jones will eventually get in, but I won't like that selection. My surmise: B

Friday 12/19/25 I don't think I've ever known anyone who apologized for an aspect of their behavior who then didn't simply continue behaving as they had been. Apologies for an oversight or the out-in-life version of a typo are different. But to stop acting a certain way? Stop treating me a certain way? That's never happened that I can recall. People, with the rarest of exceptions, don't change. It's not just that--they won't change small parts of themselves or what they're do

Wednesday 12/17/25 Why do so many women on social media look like they were drawn with a marker? Is that a filter option? Marker-sheen? It's like their features are missing features or they haven't dried yet. We're so reluctant to be our true selves no matter the context or the stakes. We hate to do it. We're increasingly incapable of it, too, with so many people not having a true self or any foundational self. We piss it away by doing, and pursuing, and being all about these