Saturday 1/7/22 I am disappointed in myself--turns out the Monument has been open all of this time, and more days per week, too. The...

Friday 1/6/23 The sports-loving meathead--who loves sports as he does because he has nothing else and cannot rise to an emotional and...

Friday 1/6/23 Dear (redacted), How are you, sir? I had a book project I'm looking to do, and I thought you were the man to bring it to....

Wednesday 1/4/23 I don't believe many people understand what prayer truly is and how prayer works--how it might work, I should say....

Friday 12/30/22 I'm preparing to go in 2023 here at the end of 2022 and that means getting a few things out of the way like setting up...

Friday 12/30/22 Will be writing a big feature for the September issue of JazzTimes on arguably the best jazz concert ever given in North...

Wednesday 12/28/22 Trying to download all of the Beatles' A/B Road right now. The computer has to be replaced in the early portion of...

Wednesday 12/28/22 Good. *** We’re apt to limit those personal freedoms. Fear does it—the fear that we’ll stand out, which is an unholy...

Wednesday 12/28/22 This is from the revised "Net Drive," which I'm still working on, about a young man's coming out as gay, which takes...

Tuesday 12/27/22 Fitzgerald advised against using exclamation points, saying it was like applauding your own joke. Rare is the situation...

Tuesday 12/27/22 He's been obscured perhaps with our persistent insistence on recency bias, and the tendency for people to mirror the...

Tuesday 12/27/22 Some people sent me really touching accounts of how they read "Best Present Ever" with their families. Not many, which...

Monday 12/26/22 People who watch a lot of baseball over the course of their lives are fond of saying that each game you will see...

Sunday 12/25/22 Yesterday I went to the Admiral and the Captain's to watch the Patriots game and spent the day in Medford. They were kind...

Saturday 12/24/22 Heading out in a few minutes to run stairs. Almost six now. Going to be unpleasant. It's 14 degrees. Have a lot I want...

Friday 12/23/22 Santa Claus is often an unpleasant handful in the Rankin-Bass universe. In Rudolph, he's judgmental, belittling,...

Friday 12/23/22 Walked three miles, did 100 push-ups. Went to Charlestown to run the Monument, and once again, the Monument is not open....

Friday 12/23/22 One will remember--though only for this reason--the unhinged, unbalanced Matt Hanson, aka, Junior Colin. As a refresher,...

Thursday 12/22/22 * Litany of posts about publishing people coming. I'm not taking the discrimination, the abuse, the bigotry, from...

Wednesday 12/21/22 To some people. *** If you read the blog or we speak personally out in life, you know about this story that is...

Wednesday 12/21/22 This is what I call game over prose. As in, there's no competing. Game over. *** I was drinking at the bar, getting...

Wednesday 12/21/22 I have not run stairs in several days. I get in these ruts. It is hard to carry on and keep forcing myself. With...

Monday 12/19/22 This first observation is anecdotal and probably apocryphal, but it seems like any time I look up this football season...

Monday 12/19/22 This is an entry of documented frustration. I set it down here today so that these facts are part of the record and...