Tuesday 12/19/23 I feel like offense in the NBA right now is like that of the NHL in 1981-82 or baseball in 1930. It's just too easy to...

Tuesday 12/19/23 Many people have no idea that the word "than" exists. It's "then" and then always. I find it difficult--but not...

Monday 12/18/23 I have something to try with The Solution to the World's Problems. We'll see if it results in anything. As for the book...

Monday 12/18/23 Color color color color color. What's your color? Are you the right color? Are you the wrong color? Because in this...

Monday 12/18/23 This time we have quite the rarity: an adaptation of A.M. Burrage's Christmas ghost story from the South African radio...

Monday 12/18/23 If the Buffalo Bills get into the playoffs, they could do something. No one is any good in the NFL this year. In the NFC...

Monday 12/18/23 Saturday was my late sister Kerrin's birthday. She would have been forty-three. Of course I called my mom to see how she...

Sunday 12/17/23 I watched Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947) last night. I've always liked this film, which critics have often...

Saturday 12/16/23 One of the dominant themes of our age, I'd say--perhaps the dominant theme--is the disavowal of reality. People try as...

Saturday 12/16/23 I say that Emily Nemens is of nothing not simply because she has no affiliation presently; but rather because she is...

Saturday 12/16/23 After doing many unpleasant things yesterday--more of which I will be doing shortly--I had to get away, so I went to...

Saturday 12/16/23 Compare with every single op-ed by anybody else. *** The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party: Look into the past...

Friday 12/15/23 I began the new Christmas story all over again this morning. Now we're on the way. I'll see if I can get this done before...

Thursday 12/14/23 Confronted with the news of her "no whites allowed" Christmas party getting out, Michelle Wu did exactly what I thought...

Thursday 12/14/23 "The Keepers" is all done. Someone read it and said, "'Keepers' is a work of such genius that if you had nothing else...

Wednesday 12/13/23 I believe that there's only way for a person to truly be a good person. A lot of times, people conflate not being a...

Wednesday 12/13/23 Every season of the year should be a season of inclusivity, should it not? Actually, we shouldn't think in terms of...

Wednesday 12/13/23 Someone asked me yesterday if I had the shakes after I quit drinking. In one regard, I find that I look at my life in...

Tuesday 12/12/23 Five Points is a literary journal we've spoken about before, based in the English department of Georgia State...

Tuesday 12/12/23 A friend of mine told me this story about when he lived on Cape Cod in his early twenties. He worked as a whale-spotter...

Tuesday 12/12/23 There's something fundamentally Christmas-like about oatmeal raisin cookies. Is it some spice? In old television shows...

Monday 12/11/23 That's a quote from Jamie's T's "Alicia Quays." This record is nearly three million words long, and until today, I didn't...

Monday 12/11/23 My mom babysat my nephew and two nieces the other night, and when she was putting Amelia--who turns four next month--to...

Monday 12/11/23 Very rarely does anyone do anything for the right reason. Their interest is in serving themselves, regardless of what...