Saturday 12/17/22 Coming up on three in the AM and I'm still working. I should get a few hours sleep before I run the stairs. I'm working...

Friday 12/16/22 Today is my late sister's birthday. She would have been forty-two. I phoned my mom, obviously. I hear the pain in her...

Friday 12/16/22 Below is a letter I wrote last year to Jackson Howard--an editor at FSG whose name had come up on here the other day with...

Thursday 12/15/22 Going about things a bit differently this time. Let's go backwards. Simple. I'm going to share a note that was a...

Thursday 12/15/22 I worked on the Christmas story all morning. The one that I know is the best work of Christmas fiction ever written....

Thursday 12/15/22 I'm just going to let this email chain run backwards and have it speak for itself. *** On 12/15/2022 1:32 PM Colin...

Thursday 12/15/22 This is going to be a boring quick post, but a friendly reminder: If you subscribe to newsletters from the site (though...

Wednesday 12/14/22 It occurs here in "Linus and Lucy" at the :35 mark.

Wednesday 12/14/22 The simplest definition of intelligence: Insight into what things really are. This will sound simple but it is not...

Wednesday 12/14/22 Alexander Ovechkin reached the 800 goal mark last night, becoming just the third player to do so after Wayne Gretzky...

Wednesday 12/14/22 I was really bad at drawing as a kid, but I dreamed of making comic books, so I hit upon the possible solution of...

Wednesday 12/14/22 It's an issue when what is essentially the public square--albeit for a global village of idiots--in Twitter is at the...

Tuesday 12/13/22 I had an interesting conversation with someone last night. I remarked to them that when people have their moment--when...

Tuesday 12/13/22 C: I wrote a 1600 word story this morning called "Acorn Man" C: It's told by an adult who describes how he wanted to...

Tuesday 12/13/22 I had a bad dream last night. My father, who was alive, had gone missing. His car had turned up and I brought it to this...

Monday 12/12/22 These are some Christmas works that I find delightful, which can enrich anyone's holiday season. They're great for...

Monday 12/12/22 Roberto Clemente: The ultimate teammate. On a baseball field, little exceeded the sum-total talents of Pittsburgh Pirates...

Sunday 12/11/22 Not what I intended in these pages for tonight, but I think I am getting sick. I cannot afford to be sick in the literal...

Sunday 12/11/22 I'm working again on a story called "Net Drive." It was first written in 2019--I suspect there's an excerpt of that early...

Saturday 12/10/22 I've been going through emails for various entries about these people that I will put up on here. A constant is how...

Saturday 12/10/22 Imagine if a fat sixty-seven-year-old white guy wrote exactly what Amanda Gorman writes and Amanda Gorman didn't exist....

Friday 12/9/22 Miracle on 34th Street and the legitimate existence of Santa Claus. Last Christmas, my then seven-year-old nephew barely...

Thursday 12/8/22 I have sat here for the last two hours working on about twenty stories and a novel--The Year--in my head. The characters...

Thursday 12/8/22 I have to reach out to this site's webmaster for a bunch of things. I can't believe I've let that go so long. The Books...