Sunday 8/21/22 It would be a challenge to say how difficult it is to keep going. To remain alive, even. But then to get up each day,...

Outline for A Kiss Always Tasted: Living with the Art of Billie Holiday Billie now For a long time, I've known I was going to write this...

Saturday 8/20/22 Me: I am killing myself here with work, and it just gets worse. I've written like ten things this week. Nothing comes...

Thursday 8/18/22 The Laughing Beatles Innocence, “If I Fell,” and a night in Vancouver in summer 1964 If one is familiar with the history...

Wednesday 8/17/22 * Strange baseball stat: Tom Brunansky and Carl Yastrzemski had the same number of twenty home run seasons with eight....

Wednesday 8/17/22 * I've been working on a lot of different things--stories, op-eds, nonfiction pieces, books--the past few days. It's...

Tuesday 8/16/22 The harbor ghost had no shortage of duties to which to attend, but on occasion he went beyond himself. There was a woman...

Tuesday 8/16/22 “It is amazing what people will believe,” God said to Jesus. “This again?” Jesus replied. They were the same person but...

Monday 8/15/22 “How dark does night get?” a baby star asked an older star high up in the heavens, which is what some people call the sky,...

Monday 8/15/22 More than a Door Greatest hits albums, second looks, kissing cousins, and some Sam Cooke. Is there a form of album in all...

Sunday 8/14/22 "You can't say that to people," she said. "You can say anything to people," he countered. *** "I actually say it out...

Saturday 8/13/22 Did you know that when Jeffrey Toobin was a staff writer at The New Yorker that New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick...

Saturday 8/13/22 The day I met God—and it was just the one—a voice told me he was out back. The voice didn’t belong to anyone. It hung in...

Friday 8/12/22 Ours is an age--until there is change--when people are increasingly incapable of separating insanity from sanity. The...

Thursday 8/11/22 To what degree is knowing nothing about someone now important to liking them? Or not disliking them? Rather, I'd say. By...

Wednesday 8/10/22 * Felt very strong on the stairs today. I ran no stairs and didn't do any push-ups yesterday. On Monday I did 100...

Wednesday 8/10/22 Let's walk through the process by which most people in the publishing industry read, using two metaphors. I'm talking...

Wednesday 8/10/22 Remember how in school you’d have to write these essays about the person you most admired? You probably should have had...

Wednesday 8/10/22 Hard Truths Allowed The Upliftingly Melancholic Full-Length Peanuts Movie, Snoopy Come Home. In the set-apart suburbia...

Wednesday 8/10/22 * The reason I don't like Mark Lewisohn's writing is because he's not a writer. He's a historian. What he does is find...

Wednesday 8/10/22 This kid in college had a huge crush on this hot girl, nursed for thirty percent of a decade. She was totally out of...

Sunday 8/7/22 This is pretty typical of how people are, but still examples worth mentioning. In the first instance, we can see what...

Saturday 8/6/22 A putrid, mephitic sludge oozed from my workout shorts this morning. This is a rare occurrence. There has to be...

Saturday 8/6/22 Watch. "I just had a workout." "I am going to work out." That's how that works. "I can't do this anymore." "I can't eat...