Tuesday 9/5/23 These are some lines from "You Can Have That," a story which is going to be in The Solution to the World's Problems:...

Tuesday 9/5/23 Mental illness as a putdown. Lambasting someone as mentally ill is one of the more curious aspersions of our vituperative...

Monday 9/4/23 It's eight in the morning and I've been working for eight hours already. Now I'll run stairs and later I'll go to the...

Saturday 9/2/23 Favorite place: Rockport, MA Favorite season: Autumn Favorite holiday: Christmas Favorite book: William Sloane's To Walk...

Friday 9/1/23 M.R. James would get together with a buddy in his or their rooms, and they'd pull the curtains and pretend it was dark out...

Friday 9/1/23 Dashing around, getting much done, but will quickly put this here. Typical what one sees in this photo. This is many...

Wednesday 8/30/23 At the point where just accounting for/documenting what I've been writing of late is going to be like writing a piece....

Tuesday 8/29/23 Wrote a 3000 word short story and ran 5000 stairs today. That was by 12:15. Don't know what I have with the story, but...

Tuesday 8/29/23 Chris "the bitch" Sale did his fake manly contrition act after sucking for the latest time last night. I detest this Red...

Monday 8/28/23 Woman informed me that among her passions in life is getting "margs." Okay. And then I was done again. "So, Colin, as you...

Monday 8/28/23 A children's book that's for adults and not children. A real one, not a novelty one. And not because of foul language or...

Sunday 8/27/23 Someone I know is overwhelmed to the point that they can't take care of basic tasks in their life, though it's a simple...

Saturday 8/26/23 I saw some highlights of Mookie Betts' Fenway return last night. The game was on Apple+--whatever that means--so I'm...

Friday 8/25/23 Recently I went out to Milton to experience the Blue Hills and conduct a workout in nature. The Blue Hills are an...

Thursday 8/24/23 Over the last two days, I've worked on eleven different works. Eight of them are now complete. I'll account for it all...

Thursday 8/24/23 It could be the beginning of the end for Shohei Ohtani, he who has been treated and talked about as a mythological...

Wednesday 8/23/23 Yesterday I worked on seven different new stories. They are all for Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid Exceptions to...

Wednesday 8/23/23 There's a lot and I don't know the best way to send it. I don't know if anyone even reads it. I know that no one out...

Tuesday 8/22/23 Carl Yastrzemski hit four walk-off home runs. Ted Williams hit five. Willie Mays hit six. The mighty Dave Kingman hit...

Monday 8/21/23 M.R. James published four volumes of ghost stories and together they contain almost every short story he completed. The...

Saturday 8/19/23 The mighty Dave Kingman, a player no one has ever much liked, though they should, because he was awesome--you just have...

Saturday 8/19/23 It is better to avoid the phrases "deep dive" and "pro tip." The former is lazy (paradoxically, given what it suggests...

Friday 8/18/23 Spending some time with my nephew recently, I thought about childhood and summer. This boy that he is as he comes up on...

Thursday 8/17/23 The Fisherman's Feast will be outside on my street for the next four days, beginning today. That means it will be even...