This will be in Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan. The book is up over 80,000...

Friday 3/31/23 Yesterday, having completed--though I must read it back a number of times--an excellent 4500 word essay called "This is...

Thursday 3/30/23 From an essay I am writing on joy in life and literature. *** Most writers now write to what they perceive as being...

Thursday 3/30/23 Reggie Jackson never hit 30 home runs in back-to-back seasons. Neither Jackson nor Mickey Mantle ever had 100 RBI in...

Wednesday 3/29/23 Taking a moment because I just finished a 2500 word piece on the Beatles. It's excellent. I will read it back a couple...

Wednesday 3/29/23 Soon there will be the first post in these pages about Casey Kittrell, a full-on bigot, who is the acquisitions editor...

Thursday 3/28/23 Last nigh I watched a 1969 short that was quite a faithful adaptation of Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery." I...

Tuesday 3/28/23 A newsworthy story in today's world would be if the person most qualified for something actually got it. I went through...

Tuesday 3/28/23 The other day, someone was talking to me about my drinking, specifically about the alcohol I used to consume. This record...

Tuesday 3/28/23 No holiday signifies opportunity like Easter. It’s a holiday that functions as both challenge and reminder. You are still...

Sunday 3/26/23 Working on this this AM. It will be added to Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking...

Saturday 3/25/23 Here's what this morning was. I finished a 2500 word story called "Tile Guy," which will possibly be in Become Your Own...

Saturday 3/25/23 Beiderbecke comes into the Whiteman ranks in 1927, and he’s grateful to be there, in part because some solidity was...

Saturday 3/25/23 A different—and perfect—ghost story for Easter. At the root of Easter, the fundamental holiday of rebirth, there is a...

Saturday 3/25/23 It's like I have to go to a strength bank and there's nothing in it or very little and I need to make this withdrawal of...

Saturday 3/25/23 It depresses me and gets me so down how collectively stupid and petty and embarrassing we are now. How hollow and fake....

Friday 3/24/23 Whiteman was mainstream America’s jazz-tinged go-to during those times, a purveyor of airs who got a country dancing and...

Thursday 3/23/23 It was observed the other day on the radio that I have been up and down with my thoughts regarding Bruins goaltender...

Thursday 3/23/23 As I work on what might be the longest story I've ever done--the updated "Big Bob and Little Bob"--I wrote the shortest...

Thursday 3/23/23 I was leaving the cafe yesterday and normally would have turned home at that time. I am not being as productive as I...

Sunday 3/19/23 I work with a tile guy whose hands are always shaking. His name is Ted, which is unfortunate, because I know he's thought...

Saturday 3/18/23 More work this morning on "Big Bob and Little Bob," which is in The Solution to the World's Problems: Surprising Tales...

Friday 3/17/23 A lot of people dressed in green in the streets today and drinking their considerable asses off. I look at these people...

Friday 3/17/23 Her mother used to show visitors how she slept when she was a child because of how she always positioned her hands, the...