Wednesday 10/26/22 Competition works that way. If you’re competing with someone who is awesome at what both of you are undertaking, this...

Tuesday 10/25/22 Worked out late, didn't work out much. The grind. So much to do for so little money. Ran 2000 stairs, did 100 push-ups,...

Tuesday 10/25/22 For a long time, we’ve thought that McCartney was most responsible for “Yellow Submarine.” Starr needed his vocal...

Tuesday 10/25/22 Just doing this between things. I stayed up and watched not only the whole of the Patriots game--save when I was...

Monday 10/24/22 I am tired. In the last few days--I don't even know when I started; Saturday?--I've gone through, added on, made changes...

Monday 10/24/22 Someone who tells you they hate birds is best to be avoided. To this statement we can also substitute the ocean, fog,...

Sunday 10/23/22 Wrapping up the weekend, which marks for me the start of the new week. Wrote a 2500 word short story. It's not done. it...

Sunday 10/23/22 From a piece that's coming soon. Gatsby was Fitzgerald’s third novel. It’s 46,000 words long, and its shape is that of a...

Sunday 10/23/22 People now are almost all toxic, passive aggressive, and generally out of their minds. That's just how it is. If I deal...

Sunday 10/23/22 One of the things writing is most fundamentally about is successively giving readers reasons to keep reading. Little is...

Sunday 10/23/22 * This has been a frustrating morning. I wrote 9000 words between two pieces for nothing. They're not going to run. An...

Saturday 10/22/22 * Anniversary of my sister's death yesterday. Called my mom but she wasn't there. Texted her that I'd been thinking of...

Wednesday 10/19/22 Discussed this delightful 1972 animated adaptation of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" on the radio...

Monday 10/17/22 A friend's father is suffering from dementia and Yankees baseball seems to be about all he enjoys right now, so this Red...

Saturday 10/15/22 This is now also done. "Powering Through." 3500 words. If I was one of these people of the diseased system and I wrote...

Saturday 10/15/22 It's gray and raining hard outside. Temperature in the mid-60s. A day to knock leaves off trees. I've been working on...

Saturday 10/15/22 Thursday was the anniversary of the greatest home run in baseball history, struck by the Pirates' Bill Mazeroski in the...

Wednesday 10/12/22 I try to be karmically, emotionally, and psychologically generous as I get older, and that includes being...

Wednesday 10/12/22 Much chatter about the Mets being chokers. You win 101 games, and it's hard to fit that label, but failing to win that...

Wednesday 10/12/22 Many times I have wanted certain words to come from mouths, and others when I wished they would not. Whether they...

Wednesday 10/12/22 I had an odd dream last night about an ex-girlfriend from college. We were adults now, and I was pining for her in...

Sunday 10/9/22 Walked six miles yesterday, ran the Monument three times, did 300 push-ups. A veteran of Korea (according to his hat)...

Saturday 10/8/22 My roommate Troy in college was adamant that in high school he'd been able to suck himself off and casually brought up...

Friday 10/7/22 * I worked pretty hard this week. I'll work what that entailed into a larger accounting later. * My little mentee...