Wednesday 4/3/24 It bothers me a lot when people brag, "One thing you should know about me is I will treat the janitor the same as I...

Wednesday 4/3/24 Lighter matters. The Red Sox beat the Athletics, but needed extras to do so. Extra innings in regular season baseball...

Wednesday 4/3/24 It's lovely to get yesterday's mail--which came late--before the dawn of the new day, and receive no less than three...

Tuesday 4/2/24 I'm looking at the stats for the Oakland Athletics, and I see that they're at a -27 run differential after five...

Tuesday 4/2/24 The other day I was at the Harvard T stop, making my way up to the street. You come through the turnstile, and there's a...

Tuesday 4/2/24 No one writes more on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his work than I. Of course, this could be said about many, many, many...

Tuesday 4/2/24 We have a street. One one side of the street is a person by themselves. They have something in front of them--we can't...

Tuesday 4/2/24 Mark Twain was alive for every Opening Day of Cy Young's career but one. He lived to the start of Ty Cobb's sixth season....

Monday 4/1/24 Wrote a couple of op-eds, both of which ran yesterday; a Beatles feature ran the other day. Summary of one of them to a...

Monday 4/1/24 Watched a great hockey game yesterday afternoon and into the evening between Boston College--the top team in the...

Saturday 3/30/24 I had said some time ago that a couple prose offs would be coming, one of which would involve a short story put forward...

Thursday 3/28/24 In this prose off, we're going to focus on the words and actions of Michael Ray, who is the editor in chief of Zoetrope,...

Wednesday 3/27/24 There's a welcoming rock crab--or there should be--on the home page of the site now with what is called a light box...

Tuesday 3/26/24 Why don't you just drink five more cups of tea, he says to himself. I'm still working on "Friendship Bracelet." Should be...

Tuesday 3/26/24 Bit raw out there today. That's okay. The Zulu warrior cares not about such things. Ran 3000 stairs, did 100 push-ups. I...

Tuesday 3/26/24 I'm about to be all done with "Friendship Bracelet." If I'd done nothing else in my life, this would have been enough....

Tuesday 3/26/24 One would learn more about writing in the two minutes it takes to read that Writing truths entry on here than they would...

Tuesday 3/26/24 "We only have one life to live." You don't know that. You couldn't possibly know that. I've noticed that when some women...

Tuesday 3/26/24 Boston Bruins coach Jim Montgomery laid into his team, saying they don't look like they're ready for the playoffs, citing...

Monday 3/25/24 If you have to try and convince yourself that something is right, it's not. Get it right. The end is the most important...

Monday 3/25/24 Things are going to be very business-like right now. After five years, it looks like my ordeal with the IRS that was...

Saturday 3/23/24 Basically been working since two something this morning, but have checked out some of this Iowa/Holy Cross game in the...

Saturday 3/23/24 Encountered the following from someone online regarding Roxane Gay and her ilk. By ilk, I do not mean the morbidly...

Saturday 3/23/24 BC took the hammer to UMass last night with eight unanswered goals and BU soundly beat Maine, so the two rivals will...