Wednesday 10/4/23 You can't fake life in a story. You can't teach how to have it be there. And the value of a work of writing is directly...

Wednesday 10/4/23 The phone rang a couple days ago, so I answered it, and as soon as I said hello, my three-year-old niece said, "Can I...

Wednesday 10/4/23 This morning I clicked on a writer's profile on Facebook. They're not actually a writer. They never are. They may write...

Tuesday 10/3/23 Hello, I wanted to clear up a matter regarding Letter ID () I’d been unable to access my mail for a brief period, but...

Tuesday 10/3/23 There was this period in the 1980s when becoming a member of the 30-30 club in baseball was all the rage. It was hyped...

Tuesday 10/3/23 This is from the essay on Paul Whiteman that I'm reworking and will hopefully finish today. It's good. It'll either go in...

Tuesday 10/3/23 I know this sounds strange, but I sort of feel like a month is a pussy when it doesn't go all the way to thirty-one days....

Monday 10/2/23 The Patriots were slaughtered 38-3 yesterday by the Cowboys. If they are not the worst team in the league, they're...

Monday 10/2/23 Wilkie Collins had a strange way with commas. Books I'd like to write books on, or write about in a book that is a broader...

Friday 9/29/23 Wrote this today and sent it to a friend's thirteen-year-old daughter. Her friend was found dead in bed the other morning....

Friday 9/29/23 Watched the Baltimore Orioles clinch the AL East by shutting out the Red Sox at a jumping Camden Yards. A cool, early...

Wednesday 9/27/23 In my top ten of favorite albums, one would find the Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer, the Who's Live at Leeds, the...

Wednesday 9/27/23 It's suggestive how important it is for Patriots fans to think that Mac Jones is good, when it should be obvious to...

Wednesday 9/27/23 In his writings one sees what a good feel M.R. James had for people. He's often talked about as this bachelor who only...

Tuesday 9/26/23 Here's part of the problem, and it's also a tough way to go through life. It actually explains a lot about where I'm at....

Monday 9/25/23 One of the many things I'm conscious of in writing this unique record is to not repeat anything, which is commonly sited...

Sunday 9/24/23 A couple photos I was sent yesterday of my nieces Lilah and Amelia in one of them and then just Amelia in the other. Guess...

Sunday 9/24/23 Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" runs for two minutes and six seconds. It is comprised of eighty-seven words. There are...

Sunday 9/24/23 What'd I'd say about all of the fiction I see now is that there's never any life in it. Even when one piece is somewhat...

Saturday 9/23/23 Wrote the feature on the Beatles' Get Back LP which I did mostly so I could include it in Just Like Them: A Piece by...

Friday 9/22/23 Contemporary reviews of Nick Drake's three records often stated how similar his songs were to each other just as Drake's...

Friday 9/22/23 Started a feature on the Beatles Get Back LP and worked some more on Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming...

Thursday 9/21/23 Preface: Our Acceptance It wasn’t until the twenty-first century that large numbers of people began doing something...

Thursday 9/21/23 I'll talk about this now. It's time. So, I had joked that I wrote a book by accident. There was joke in the joke and...