Tuesday 8/2/22 M: Hey. C: What's up? M: What are you doing? C: Working on that story "Caves and Waterfalls" and writing an op-ed. M:...

Tuesday 8/2/22 I saw where a woman said she was an open book, and to turn the pages and unravel her. This annoyed me much. Do you not...

Monday 8/1/22 This story was told to me in the town where I grew up, but then again, it was told to everyone, or else you happened upon...

Monday 8/1/22 As disturbing as it is the percentage of people who think their personalities and who they are was determined by how close...

Sunday 7/31/22 C: It's remarkable how every last one of these people is a delusional, unstable moron. There really are no exceptions. The...

Saturday 7/30/22 "I definitely think I can outlast the earth," the child said to her protector. "Definitely, huh?" "Yep. Definitely." The...

Saturday 7/30/22 Don’t tell me to stop after I’ve started. Don’t tell me to look when I’ve already seen. Don’t tell me to talk when I’ve...

Wednesday 7/27/22 A couple days ago I got my change back from the Starbucks where I'd ordered a tall black coffee and a large cup of...

Tuesday 7/26/22 * Was working Friday night on "Master of Romance," and went to check the score of the Red Sox game, and saw that it was...

Saturday 7/23/22 Nate Crayton was a master of romance. The word legendary was built for him and it might as well as have been made of...

Saturday 7/23/22 This is an op-ed with which I could do nothing that is obviously better than other op-eds. So it becomes an entry here,...

Saturday 7/23/22 This is an op-ed with which I could do nothing that is obviously better than other op-eds. So it becomes an entry here,...

Friday 7/22/22 * The third Beatles book is going to be called Understanding All You See: The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and the...

Thursday 7/21/22 I see the same kind of person repeatedly on Twitter, and I think this type of person says a lot about our world. They...

Wednesday 7/20/22 Wrote an op-ed yesterday on push-ups and heat, fixed it today. Pretty much all done. One more read will do it. Wrote a...

Wednesday 7/20/22 A perk of being massively fragmented—because almost everything has a perk if you look hard enough, even atomic bombs—is...

Monday 7/18/22 Someone reading Brackets wrote me: "I've never read a book better than this book. I am blown away over and over again. But...

Monday 7/18/22 And little else. That's just true. There is a societal expectation, though, that you will pretend otherwise. Or should get...

Sunday 7/17/22 * I awoke not in pain, but with soreness under my arms from the push-ups. I'll have to continue to do the reps until that...

Sunday 7/17/22 “Incredible, absolutely incredible,” people were known to say when they saw just how ugly Gaely was. Some would exclaim...

Sunday 7/17/22 I'm going to discuss Gunsmoke the radio show in general and the following five episodes in particular on the radio on...

Saturday 7/16/22 Something I've learned and live: It takes a truly good and honorable person to do right by a person of greatness when...

Saturday 7/16/22 Put together a proposal for a book on Thoreau Friday morning. I have two different ideas for Thoreau books. I will write...

Thursday 7/14/22 Okay work today. Formal work on the short stories "Carlyle," "I Don't Think We Should Be Doing This," "White Wizard...