Friday 6/10/22 I can work harder than I did this week, but that's about as hard as I've worked. There's no competing with what I'm doing...

Wednesday 6/8/22 It was ten years ago today that Molly took my house from me in Rockport. Going to that courthouse, and going through...

Wednesday 6/8/22 Arthur Alexander and the Art of Listening Have you ever learned about a set of recordings and thought, “I would like to...

Tuesday 6/7/22 A Few Thoughts on the Physics of Words and Us Length is one of those concepts with which we all think we’re familiar,...

Tuesday 6/7/22 Call It a Kit “Full stop” is a pithy, somewhat stentorian, two-syllable, percussive summation that we encounter a lot now....

Monday 6/6/22 Feel strong and limber. Ran 3000 stairs, walked seven miles, did 100 push-ups. Still congested and lungs are not back...

Monday 6/6/22 People overestimate the docility of their dogs. This is far more telling of people than it is of dogs. They think that...

Monday 6/6/22 Next Thursday is Bloomsday. Joyce's Ulysses came out 100 years ago, and I wrote a piece about the need to and benefits of...

Saturday 6/4/22 I've been mulling a possible cover art approach for Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate...

Saturday 6/4/22 Just so everything is in one place, and I can consult it. These are the music books I've done, am doing, plan to do....

Friday 6/3/22 I don't know why, but as the day went on, I got sicker. All congested everywhere again. I mean totally. I blow my nose and...

Friday 6/3/22 For the first time this week, after things really kicked in on Monday, I seem to have less mucus. I've been swimming in the...

Thursday 6/2/22 Working on a new story called "Grrrr." A form-exploder. Here is the altered full title now: There Is No Doubt: Story...

Thursday 6/2/22 It's the morning after the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, and like many people I would imagine, I find myself not much good...

Thursday 6/2/22 The below is from Tuesday, only appearing now. I remain sick, no improvement, and I don't feel like going through this...

Thursday 6/2/22 Often in these pages I'll casually mention that I pitched something on some subject. Below is an example of one of those...

Wednesday 6/1/22 Less of a regular entry and more of a documentation of status. I've been pretty sick since last week and that has...

Monday 5/23/22 Recently I was doing what I do every morning of my life, running 5000 stairs outside of Boston’s City Hall, when a college...

Saturday 5/21/22 Went through "Swoony and Moony" again. I've worked so hard on this story. I made about a half dozen small changes that...

Saturday 5/21/22 New week starts, so let's play another edition of The Week Game and look at what was done in the week that just...

Thursday 5/19/22 Giving the General Some A new book treats Buster Keaton—and his art—as Buster Keaton deserves to be treated. Few skills...

Thursday 5/19/22 Here's an example of not a good way to go. As I wrote the other day, there are people who want to take me on. They have...

Wednesday 5/18/22 I'm cranking masterpieces. Wrote a big piece for the Library of Congress on Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers' "Jesus...

Wednesday 5/18/22 Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers: “Jesus Gave Me Water” (1951) The record-buying world was largely introduced to the...