Thursday 6/26/25 I heard a rumor that Threepenny Review editor Wendy Lesser's rapper name is the bag of hag, which is a reference to her...

Thursday 6/26/25 Post seen this morning: You’re not witnessing a glow up. You’re witnessing a return. To who I was before the world told...

Wednesday 6/25/25 I've noticed where people mention in their bio on social media something about bariatric surgery. Then they post before...

Tuesday 6/24/25 In the Holmes and Watson stories, people die by gunshot ("The Dancing Men"), stabbing ("The Second Stain"), poison ( A...

Tuesday 6/24/25 Did five circuits of stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument Sunday. Ten would have been better, but the air was thick and I...

Sunday 6/22/25 US launched strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. How bad is it if the world comes to an end at this point? I don't know...

Saturday 6/21/25 I wrote yesterday that we'd be doing another Conjunctions prose off, the hardest thing about that being that when you...

Saturday 6/21/25 I've heard people on the radio who know nothing about sports and who make a lot of money talking unintelligently and...

Friday 6/20/25 Checked out the list of recordings added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry in 2025. I had somehow...

Friday 6/20/25 The right title is often two words long. Plenty of times it isn't, but but that doesn't change that it often is. Rarely is...

Thursday 6/19/25 About a month and a half ago, I saw this post made by a teacher about this gifted child in her class who finished his...

Thursday 6/19/25 Had another nightmare about my ex-wife last night. A lot of trauma. I was in Greenwich Village, it was pouring, needed a...

Tuesday 6/17/25 Monday was a mostly lost day. Last week--I believe it was Thursday--I awoke with pain in what I believed was my last...

Tuesday 6/17/25 American Short Fiction --a scam of an operation with multiple bigots running said scam--that we've talked about numerous...

Tuesday 6/17/25 Saturday was Bunker Hill Day in Charlestown. It was a big celebration this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the...

Monday 6/16/25 Red Sox fans are in an uproar following the announcement that the team had traded Rafael Devers to the Giants following...

Saturday 6/14/25 We've talked some about Emily Nemens in the past. She was editor at The Paris Review before current classist Emily...

Friday 6/13/25 I didn't run stairs yesterday. I'd just written so much, you know? Which isn't to say that most of the times I run stairs...

Friday 6/13/25 The Patriots have announced the day their Tom Brady statue will be revealed at Gillette. I didn't know there was a Tom...

Wednesday 6/11/25 At 5:05 here on the morning of June 11, 2025, I officially pronounced "Friendship Bracelet," which was begun December...

Tuesday 6/10/25 Let's return to New England Review and our friend Carolyn Kuebler, shall we? We've spoken several times about this...

Tuesday 6/10/25 I saw something that moved me Sunday at the cafe after I'd gone there to read. These people were at the table behind me,...

Monday 6/9/25 It's very strange that when a player is trader from a team--and you encounter this kind of thinking more with baseball and...

Monday 6/9/25 I have a number of goals regarding the stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument for the rest of the year. I don't like to do...