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Many Moments More


Stafford
Thursday 2/17/22 Watched the video of Matthew Stafford at the Rams' Super Bowl celebration in which the woman photographer falls off of...
Feb 17, 20222 min read


Etiquette--as in the hallway, as in life
Thursday 2/17/22 Came back from working out today, ready to move on to the next part of the day, and the woman who cleans the hallways of...
Feb 17, 20225 min read


1500
Thursday 2/17/22 This is the 1500th entry in the Many Moments More journal. Felt like it was not that long ago we were talking about...
Feb 17, 20224 min read


"Cancer Carson," short story excerpt
Wednesday 2/16/22 A joke went around the office that Carson must have been a radioactive waste dump, because he gave you cancer, and...
Feb 16, 20223 min read


Horror fiction readings
Wednesday 2/16/22 Winter is a great time to read classic horror fiction. Any time is a great time for me, but the slate-colored days, the...
Feb 16, 20222 min read


Keats for Valentine's Day
Wednesday 2/16/22 Unused. *** Keats for Valentine’s I love John Keats, and this year I am regarding him as my Valentine. Valentine's Day...
Feb 16, 20223 min read


Country of work, slick stairs, journal average, ambivalence
Tuesday 2/15/22 A difficulty that is not really a difficulty that I am running up against as I make There Is No Doubt: Storied Humanness...
Feb 15, 20224 min read


The ship
Monday 2/14/22 I need to get my head on right. I sent the plumber's check to the wrong address, which was the one listed online, rather...
Feb 14, 20222 min read


Some sports
Sunday 2/13/22 I belong to various FB groups, but I end up leaving most of them. I just can't handle the stupidity. No one knows...
Feb 13, 20227 min read
Novels
Saturday 2/12/22 For organizational purposes. There will be others and there are others, but this is an important list; obviously the...
Feb 12, 20221 min read
Z-U-L-U
Friday 2/11/22 I've worked so hard this week. Written so much. Achieved so much. I've had 300 careers for other people this week. Dealt...
Feb 11, 20221 min read


Excerpt from piece about (finally!) reading James Joyce's Ulysses
Thursday 2/10/22 Everyone recognizes that guy who specializes in fake cerebralness. He’s all about the pose. You’ll encounter him at the...
Feb 10, 20223 min read


Brian Flores and my world of discrimination
Thursday 2/10/22 I've been doing my homework on the Brian Flores situation. It's quaint to me that this is what he thinks of as extreme...
Feb 10, 20228 min read


No logs
Wednesday 2/9/22 On Saturday I wrote a story called "Hush Little," which I went back into yesterday and did what needed doing. It's...
Feb 9, 20224 min read


Tom Brady and the greatness bigger than sports
Sunday 2/6/22 An op-ed written last week in the interval between rumors of Brady's retirement and the official announcement that...
Feb 6, 20223 min read


Whee
Saturday 2/5/22 After five in the AM. Been working for a few hours. Wrote a short story. Need to return to it. Gave an interview for a...
Feb 5, 20225 min read


Correspondence portion
Saturday 2/5/22 Yes. It's absolutely ridiculous. I've written about this review on the blog. You have a moron, for starters. It's not a...
Feb 5, 20224 min read


Tip of the day
Saturday 2/5/22 People who are more likely to say that they agree with you or disagree with you are more likely to be people of little...
Feb 5, 20222 min read


How some things are got and become
Friday 2/4/22 Late start. Stayed up late watching Lakers-Clippers. Reggie Miller talks about Carmelo Anthony like he's 1000. But then...
Feb 4, 20225 min read


Rocket fuel
Thursday 2/3/22 Had to make an appointment for tomorrow with the Genius Bar at the Apple store on Boylston. Apparently, my voice comes...
Feb 3, 20223 min read


A notebook and attendant thoughts
Wednesday 2/2/22 Just about finished "The Everything," which is 2200 words long, and as strong as anything I've ever written. Also nearly...
Feb 2, 20222 min read


Excerpt from an essay discussing the Beatles' "In My Life"
Wednesday 2/2/22 On Love Songs, tracks that don’t appear to belong together as workable fits, reach across the years and styles to become...
Feb 2, 20224 min read


Letters
Wednesday 2/2/22 T: Colin, just finished listening to all that. Went through a minor version of exactly the same thing today at work....
Feb 2, 20221 min read


"The Everything," short story excerpt
Wednesday 2/2/22 My brother and I drank whisky in galumphing rhythm sitting on the floor in the attic of our mother’s house where we used...
Feb 2, 20223 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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