Monday 11/20/23 Doubles are a very revealing baseball stat. The reason is because a player can hit a lot of singles and not really be an...

Monday 11/20/23 I saw where this guy was ranking every major league baseball team in history, from best to worst. What I mean by that is...

Sunday 11/19/23 If you asked Tom Brady who his favorite targets were over the whole of his career, I'd bet that he'd answer Troy Brown,...

Sunday 11/19/23 I'll often think about how former baseball players might look back on their careers. Consider, for instance, Reggie...

Sunday 11/19/23 Why is it so important to guys to make that disgusting throat/nose clearing sound? It's like this tribal assertion of...

Saturday 11/18/23 Saw the cover below for Wild Sea Bender, by Torkel Kane--which I think we can safely assume was a pseudonym--in a...

Friday 11/17/23 "Intentionality" has become one of those words where if a person uses it you likely know all you need to know about them....

Wednesday 11/15/23 You've heard about this--both this work and the book it's in--from me, and of course on the blog. Here it is at last:...

Wednesday 11/15/23 Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald's contention that there were are no second acts in American lives, you can have all the...

Tuesday 11/14/23 I can do better, I must do better, and I will do better. Feeling not quite right and so am pulling a patented scurvy in...

Tuesday 11/14/23 Some accounting for recent physical wellness pursuits. All of this is part of the larger whole of what I do. What I do...

Monday 11/13/23 This morning as I was running the stairs shortly after six o'clock, a young woman, crying, hailed me from below as I was...

Saturday 11/11/23 Began early today--3 in the morning--for the start of this week. Came up with three story ideas, but I'll keep them in...

Friday 11/10/23 Nice line. It's from "Devil You Do." Excerpt. *** “I’m not scared if you’re not scared,” Mary Ann said to her friend...

Friday 11/10/23 Last night I put on the TV, and I saw an interview being conducted with a person billed as an expert on the Boston...

Friday 11/10/23 I'm not doing enough of anything--by the standard I have determined as what is necessary for me right now--and that...

Thursday 11/9/23 The best relationships change, but don't diminish. People often fear this change, or have predetermined that it's...

Thursday 11/9/23 Celtics lost to the Sixers last night. Does anyone believe in the Sixers? I don't. Nor do I believe in the Celtics that...

Monday 11/7/23 It has been difficult for me to read the blow-by-blow account of Nick Drake's final days leading up to his suicide--all of...

Monday 11/6/23 When I watch football this year, I see a lot of sludge. Little quality. Not much that stands out, team-wise. The game is...

Saturday 11/4/23 Up early working on a Saturday as always. Wrote three op-eds, worked on two stories, a novelette, and wrote a feature. I...

Friday 11/3/23 The complete work will be in Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid Exceptions to Modern Fiction. *** “You can’t be an...

Friday 11/4/23 Heard Craig Breslow's press conference yesterday in which he was introduced as whatever his title is as the guy who now...

Friday 11/3/23 Today will be a landmark day of creation with many works across many forms. Weeks for me usually start on Saturdays, but...