Thursday 3/3/22 People are odd. Multiple times a day I end up saying to myself, "Okay, what are we doing here?" when I see someone doing...

Thursday 3/3/22 The way you’re going to want to handle this is to pretend you’re, I don’t know, back in college. Wait. We can fudge that....

Wednesday 3/2/22 Nine o'clock in the morning now. Went to bed at 11:30 last night, up before five. Worked some more on "Desilva"--added...

Wednesday 3/2/22 On an eventful night a man fastened a rope to a pipe coming out of his house. He cinched the rope around his waist and...

Wednesday 3/2/22 The McReynolds are our neighbors and best friends. Belinda McReynolds is my wife’s closest friend, Dave McReynolds is...

Tuesday 3/1/22 C: I worked more on "Desilva" tonight. C: This guy starts telling a story about him and his best friend C: The best friend...

Tuesday 3/1/22 I have some kind of wound on my back that is sort of festering. Has been there for a while. About the size of a quarter....

Tuesday 3/1/22 The joy and benefits of winter walking. Doing some research a few years back, I found that the average person walks less...

Monday 2/28/22 I knew that I had a tear in my regular workout sweatpants in the crotch. I get holes in my pants and shorts in the crotch....

Monday 2/28/22 Celtics lost yesterday to a weak Pacers team. Struggled against the Pistons again, too, over the weekend, but pulled it...

Monday 2/28/22 I am not someone for whom "Google" is a verb. I've never used it as a verb in conversation, text, anything I've written,...

Saturday 2/26/22 This is all there is. It's not a Bumble thing. A dating app thing. It's all there is in the world. There is no...

Saturday 2/26/22 Be wary of anyone who calls themselves a life coach, a creativity coach, a writing coach, a productivity coach, or any...

Wednesday 2/23/22 I will give it a last read, but after more work, that's pretty much going to be in for "The Parable of the Woodpecker."...

Wednesday 2/23/22 As I understand it, the Bible was written by many people at a lot of different points in time, so it was like the book...

Wednesday 2/23/22 Super options out there for the C-Dawg. I'd say this is typical, but many messages are even more poorly written than...

Wednesday 2/23/22 I see this often from people in publishing. It's the norm. Misandry is the norm. That's the sexism one encounters in...

Tuesday 2/22/22 Ran 3000 stairs. Worked more on "The Parable of the Woodpecker." It's 6100 words. That's a long story. Twitter: Where...

Tuesday 2/22/22 Sunday marked 2058 days, or 294 weeks, without a drink. Yesterday was the closest I've come to drinking in 5.5 years....

Tuesday 2/22/22 Take no bait. A fish may not know in its heart what is bait, but you do. Equanimity will carry the day and achieve the...

Sunday 2/20/22 "I feel that the public demand an average man,--average thoughts and manners,--not originality, nor even absolute...

Sunday 2/20/22 Get it right. Take the time, have the care. Whatever you are doing. Whether you are writing the greatest story ever or...

Saturday 2/19/22 Understand that when people say that something can't be changed because that's how the world is, or people shouldn't...

Friday 2/18/22 One of the first things I do in the morning is take a quick look at the news. I sleep with the phone in the bed because I...