Friday 2/23/24 Somewhat better effort. Forced myself. Finished another story. We'll get into what all of these are later. Or at least...

Friday 2/23/24 In life with people I don't want to do guessing, I want to do clarity. Communicate. So much of life for people is...

Friday 2/23/24 If writing does not mean everything to you--and if everything is not writing for you--then you will never be truly great...

Thursday 2/22/24 Something needs to kick in soon. This isn't good, man. I think I'll call the dentist tomorrow and make an appointment to...

Thursday 2/22/24 Re-start. Start by starting. If the start does not take, start again. One moment more becomes many moments more. The day...

Thursday 2/22/24 These have been dark days. All days have been dark for a long time. Some days are dark and dangerous, and the past few...

Wednesday 2/21/24 I feel for Jack Edwards when I watch a Bruins game. This is separate from how he is as a broadcaster and what he's...

Wednesday 2/21/24 Recently I encountered two telling anecdotes regarding what others might call "the writing life." I don't use this...

Tuesday 2/20/24 Wrote a story this morning called "Last Thought of a Dying 101-Year-Old Man." It's a war story. And a life story. A story...

Monday 2/19/24 Look at this shit. Publicist sends me an email today that starts Dear Colin​ Fleming​ : There is more to life … than one...

Monday 2/19/24 I'm going to illustrate something here before I run stairs. Looking at these AGNI stories--and they're all bad--I see the...

Monday 2/19/24 Went through "Horny Date" just to make sure there was nothing that needed to be done--there wasn't--and have been working...

Monday 2/19/24 Speaking of kids and aunts and uncles and things like that, yesterday was an adventure in high tea for my two nieces,...

Monday 2/19/24 "This break literally flew by!" It did not! If among the first things someone tells me is their political persuasion, I...

Sunday 2/18/24 Sunday morning, brings the dawn in--actually, every day does, but that's how Lou Reed put it once, and this Sunday morning...

Sunday 2/18/24 This is part of my response to a different letter someone sent me about David Remnick, touching on their own experience....

Saturday 2/17/24 I was going to look at fiction from four new short stories in The Baffler--which to these people means the fiction must...

Saturday 2/17/24 Was talking to a military nurse. Thirty. Attractive. Absolutely nothing to say. I just can't. People are so simple. They...

Saturday 2/17/24 New week begins. Read G.W. Stonier's "The Memoirs of a Ghost" and Rosemary Timperley's "Christmas Meeting," both of...

Friday 2/16/24 Came up with an idea for an op-ed about Kant. This will be good. Acquired a copy of everything Dylan Thomas ever recorded...

Friday 2/16/24 Regathering. Intensity resumes tomorrow. Have this op-ed mostly written in my head. Read some ghost stories. Hadn't spoken...

Friday 2/16/24 You want to write works about which it can be said, "Everyone should read this" or "Everyone needs to read this." That...

Friday 2/16/24 Came up with another Beatles idea, plus something on the Rolling Stones, and I should write an Eric Dolphy piece and an...

Thursday 2/15/24 The Red Sox opened spring training yesterday. This used to be a big deal. Well, big-ish deal, but things are pretty...