Friday 4/15/22 Mike Bossy has died. Growing up, my two sports heroes were Carlton Fisk in baseball and Bossy in hockey. Bossy is first...

Thursday 4/14/22 “This part of the feather, where it attaches to the bird’s bone, is called the calamus.” Sometimes Carlene filled in for...

Thursday 4/14/22 If he’d heard it a million times, he’d heard it once. He worked backwards. Focused on the precision of the moment,...

Thursday 4/14/22 I’ve noticed there are women who celebrate their birthday for a month as they approach forty, and then throughout that...

Thursday 4/14/22 I wrote another story this morning. I don't know what I have. I set it aside. Also wrote the "Great, good luck" op-ed. I...

Wednesday 4/13/22 * The guys calling this Atlanta-Charlotte play-in game sound like such grumpy scolds. I feel like I'm being upbraided...

Wednesday 4/13/22 Adam Schefter is pure sleaze. There's a racist in there, too. You can tell. A young man loses his life when he's hit by...

I'll be giving a talk on Zoom via the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, on April 19, at 8 PM EST. I'll be in conversation about the...

Wednesday 4/13/22 Being story. Orson Welles remarked that the best artists are more feminine than masculine. I count this as one of the...

Tuesday 4/12/22 I wrote two stories yesterday and one today. They need work. I don't know what I have. Ran 5000 stairs on Sunday and...

Sunday 4/10/22 This is going to change. But right now, this is how I'm thinking the book, and in this order. "Fitty" "Dot" "Dead Thomas"...

Sunday 4/10/22 Been reading The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum. He worked hard on this book. That's plain. I have an idea for...

Saturday 4/9/22 * Red Sox drop to 0-2. Jackie Bradley--perhaps the worst player in modern baseball history--predictably doing his thing....

Saturday 4/9/22 Each fall my father drove me halfway across the country to college so that I could have the books and records that I...

Saturday 4/9/22 Daughter of a friend of mine is being bullied really bad at school. I think I'm going to write a story for her to try and...

Saturday 4/9/22 I hate how everyone talks and writes the same way. You see it on Twitter. The same words, the same phrases, arranged the...

Saturday 4/9/22 Here's the rundown of the subjects in Just Like Them: A Piece By Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's...

Saturday 4/9/22 Message Details: Name:: Donald Gravelle Email:: Phone:: Message:: Are you the Colin Fleming that comprised the greatest...

Saturday 4/9/22 3XXX’s If X marks the spot what do three do Three hands on the same place over the side of a bed One to take another...

Tuesday 3/29/22 Sadly, I was going to refer to this entry as things one wishes to avoid lest one be a pussy, but people don't like to be...

Monday 3/28/22 If you care about film, I don't know why you'd care about the Oscars. Or maybe I should say if you have any knowledge...

Saturday 3/26/22 After doing the unthinkable and not running stairs since Monday, I ran 5000 today. The C-Dawg must not become the...

Friday 3/25/22 Jelly Roll Morton was the first musician of any kind—and what a kind he was—who made me ask myself, “Is this guy for...

Wednesday 3/23/22 Well, here we are. Half past eight. Hair sticking up like a mad scientist. No stairs two days in a row. Hard work,...