Saturday 3/16/24 Picked up the night guard yesterday afternoon at the dentist in West Medford. Wore it for the first time last night....

Friday 3/15/24 Came back from running stairs yesterday to find two Eversource employees outside my door hanging a sign on the knob that...

Wednesday 3/13/24 I'm here, I'm finishing this new story, so we'll do another prose off. Want to hammer at how bad the fiction is in...

Wednesday 3/13/24 You know what I find myself asking myself whenever I see fiction in The New Yorker, which I only do these days for a...

Wednesday 3/13/24 I don't know this for certain, but I believe three players are tied for having finished in the top ten in home runs in...

Tuesday 3/12/24 I get up every day and I know how things stand. I know on that day I can and will write the best thing ever written and...

Tuesday 3/12/24 This is pretty neat. Here we have an episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers from February 18, 1951, called "Sweet...

Monday 3/11/24 I'm not going to pretend a person is a thing they're not unless it's a child playing a game. And that includes everything....

Monday 3/11/24 I know a guy who was exactly right about Mac Jones from the start, when everyone was saying how amazing he was. Seriously....

Monday 3/11/24 Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous. He was sober for thirty-six years. Then, in the last month of his life, when he...

Sunday 3/10/24 When I played hockey and couldn't get it going, I would come out the next game and I'd hit everything that moved. I'd pop...

Sunday 3/10/24 This journal is a formidable thing. I wouldn't want to go up against it. Was thinking that yesterday as I readied some...

Saturday 3/9/24 Disappointed with what the Bruins did at the trade deadline yesterday, though I don't think it's necessarily GM Don...

Saturday 3/9/24 On Facebook, I see thousands of interchangeable, talentless writers. They all do the same basic, generic, meaningless...

Saturday 3/9/24 Started thinking about a horror novel last night. It would perhaps have a certain dual functionality. We'll see. Long way...

Friday 3/8/24 Yesterday, having gotten off my ass, I ran some stairs--3000 of them--at City Hall, just as I'm about to head out shortly...

Friday 3/8/24 I think it would probably be better if so many women didn't write that they are "thicker than a Snicker" on their dating...

Thursday 3/7/24 Here’s what I have to say about Lauren Wein. Each day, I get up and I know there are thousands of Lauren Weins. If you...

Thursday 3/7/24 If Ernest Thesiger is in it, you want to watch it. Wrote a new short story this morning. "Birthdays Gone Awry." Very...

Thursday 3/7/24 "First time I was really vulnerable? I let my two best guy friends fuck me at the same time two hours before my Sweet...

Wednesday 3/6/24 Just randomness. My effort needs to be exponentially better in all areas. Walked six miles, did 200 push-ups. Fitness...

Wednesday 3/6/24 I don't really believe in the band on Blood on the Tracks, whereas I'm all-in with the primary Nashville Blonde on...

Tuesday 3/5/24 I see these people in publishing who visit a museum and then put up ten photos of themselves on Facebook from their visit...

Tuesday 3/5/24 I am so proud of my mother. She's just the best grandmother. Last week she stayed at my sister's house and took care of...