Friday 3/17/23 Friday: a good day to think about finishing some things so as to be starting others. It's a few weeks off, but I think...

Friday 3/17/23 Having recently mentioned one Beatles book that I'll be doing, I also remarked that there was another that I'll be doing...

Thursday 3/16/23 I'm finishing a lot so I can get to much more, and work of a different stripe. As I intimated earlier, I just completed...

Thursday 3/16/23 Watched Skinamarink. There's a movie to be made there, but that's not it. Was thinking today--I think it a lot: I have a...

Thursday 3/16/23 I've never formally written about the CBS Radio Mystery Theater program, an episode of which ("The Crack in the Wall")...

Wednesday 3/15/23 Friend encountered something that had been said about my battle with alcohol, and my daily battle with alcohol, etc....

Wednesday 3/15/23 Henry David Thoreau wrote his journal between the years 1837 and 1861--so about a quarter of a century. He died only...

Tuesday 3/14/23 Overseeing a body of work is like property management. I manage a vast number of properties. There is the upkeep, the...

Tuesday 3/14/23 Sunday two men stopped me on the street where I had just done a set of push-ups to ask if I was "the stair guy." While I...

Tuesday 3/14/23 Writers often fail to ask themselves the most basic questions that ought to be central to whatever it is that they're...

Tuesday 3/14/23 Quite a number of sports-driven entries in this record of late. I'm sure that will be evened out soon. Has just worked...

Sunday 3/12/23 Yesterday I was at the cafe reading (Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination) and making notes (for pieces I'm writing,...

Sunday 3/12/23 I have, as always, been working constantly, and this weekend is no different from any weekend and each day no different...

Sunday 3/12/23 AWP is happening right now. It's an annual convention where academics and representatives of literary journals and presses...

Saturday 3/11/23 As I do my work, future work is thought about and built in some ways before it is officially built. It's one of my ways...

Friday 3/10/23 On Monday, October 24 of last year, I was watching the Patriots get destroyed at home by the Chicago Bears. During this...

Thursday 3/9/23 Dave Kingman is one of my favorite players in the history of baseball. I think I'd like to write an essay about Dave...

Thursday 3/9/23 I try to limit my time on social media more than ever. As I wrote earlier, I stopped posting on Twitter. I put my...

Wednesday 3/8/23 As I move forward in my work on The Ghost Grew Legs: Stories of the Dead for the More or Less Living, I thought I'd give...

Tuesday 3/7/23 More work on "Big Bob and Little Bob." In 2019, it was a 2100 word story that was folksy. I don't mean lighthearted. What...

Tuesday 3/7/23 When I watched a movie in which blood featured, I shielded my eyes during the portions of sanguinity. Because they were...

Tuesday 3/7/23 Catcher is my favorite position in any sport. I've always been fascinated by catchers. It's really hard to be successful...

Monday 3/6/23 Get hooked on jazz for Wes Montgomery’s centennial. Jazz is something that people seem to think would be a neat subject to...

Sunday 3/5/23 A book I'm working on right now--it's about eighty percent of the way done, I estimate--is one that has put a bounce in my...