Thursday 6/8/23 I went down to the harbor tonight to call my mother to see how she was and how the kids are doing. If I'm on the phone...

Thursday 6/8/23 It looks like it's over for the Florida Panthers. We will know more after tonight. But it seems as though Cinderella has...

Thursday 6/8/23 When I see people act like they know how things work in "media," there's a wellspring of firsthand experiences--tens of...

Wednesday 6/7/23 Each day I drink a third of a bottle of cranberry juice from Trader Joe's. This is the cranberry juice that is undiluted...

Wednesday 6/7/23 The best episodes of The Andy Griffith Show have certain things in common, I've noticed. They all have a serious...

Wednesday 6/7/23 C: I've been thinking more about how I'm going to handle this with such and such if I have to. I'll do it in stages and...

Tuesday 6/6/23 The other day, a meathead who was selling me lemons--which I cut up with the one knife I own and put in my water...

Tuesday 6/6/23 The other day on Facebook, I clicked on someone's story, which I rarely do. Why do I rarely do this? Because no one is...

Tuesday 6/6/23 Harmon Killebrew, Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Jimmie Foxx, and Mickey Mantle all finished in the top ten in the league...

Monday 6/5/23 Last night, I made an attempt to calculate how many units of alcohol I consumed in all of the time I was drinking far more...

Monday 6/5/23 It would feel to me like I'd witnessed a miracle--well, call it a near-miracle--if I saw someone who knew how "every day"...

Monday 6/5/23 Yesterday I was doing my stairs in the Bunker Hill Monument. As I was coming down one time, a no-necked, pugnacious-looking...

Thursday 6/1/23 Because JazzTimes is no more, I've been working again today on a piece that was to have run with them on The Sound of...

Thursday 6/1/23 My mother phoned me yesterday asking for advice. People often come to me for advice, but I would say it's most common...

Thursday 6/1/23 Today I looked at a piece in a venue that is supposed to be intelligent. This is a common experience for me. I'm trying...

Wednesday 5/31/23 If the male human body is 60% water, I think I went down to about 58% on Sunday for a while. (It concerns me that it...

Monday 5/29/23 Here is something very few people realize: It's possible to be both right and hateful. Having gotten something correct...

Monday 5/29/23 This is from an essay I've been working on and was working on again this morning on the 1977 children's BBC...

Saturday 5/27/23 I have been thinking about what it would entail--and how I would go about doing--a book that is both fiction and...

Saturday 5/27/23 * Celtics win again and are now down 3-2. Am I surprised? No outcomes in sports surprise me. Maybe a little. But I can...

Saturday 5/27/23 I need to work harder. Much harder. It takes me so long now to sign off on something as finished. A lot gets finished,...

Saturday 5/27/23 This is just a peek behind the curtain. Just one thing from a day. One will see an email from me to a group of people...

Thursday 5/25/23 Last night I went back and listened to the five-part Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episode, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter,"...

Thursday 5/25/23 This entry runs the risk of sounding villainous and I don't want to sound villainous because that's often an indication...