Wednesday 12/22/21 It’s the winter of 1956, and a boy who is going to change the world, who’d be the last person in the world to think...

Tuesday 12/21/21 Given my love of Halloween and Christmas, and that it seems like I've seen everything, it's probably surprising that I...

Monday 12/20/21 Eleven years ago today I got married in the building which I now run stairs outside most of the days of my life in order...

Monday 12/20/21 There is no young and there is no old. There’s always someone younger than you, and there’s always someone older. There’s...

Monday 12/20/21 Ran 5000 stairs on Saturday, 3000 yesterday, which also marked 1995 days, or 285 weeks, without a drink of alcohol. On...

Sunday 12/19/21 Available via Amazon, Amazon UK, wherever else one likes to get books, or at 50% off until the end of the year through...

Sunday 12/19/21 I'm really going deep into Dragnet. Learning new things. It's a show that can help one with one's problem solving skills....

Sunday 12/19/21 I had mentioned in these pages a few days ago about the last run of the Stone Roses in December 1994, citing their...

Saturday 12/18/21 * Thursday was my late sister Kerrin's birthday. She would have been forty-one. I called my mother and had sent her a...

Thursday 12/16/21 * Mac Jones does and says everything the Patriots want him to do and say. They might as well have created him in a test...

Wednesday 12/15/21 I am exhausted. I've written so much and endured so much in the past few days. I will catch up on that on here...

Wednesday 12/15/21 Ben Affleck is fundamentally uninteresting. He's not good at anything. And yet, he's often in the news and being...

Tuesday 12/14/21 The girl was a soldier. The girl was a sun. The girl was a question that asked for help. The girl was a friend who...

Monday 12/13/21 When people congratulate themselves by saying, "I'm very proud to have gotten this far on my own," I always think, "Where...

Monday 12/13/21 These are some Christmas-related art works I've been listening and reading lately. The Cinnamon Bear was a radio program...

Sunday 12/12/21 Work harder tomorrow. Winding it down for now. Just got home, twenty of eight. Wrote a 2700 word jazz piece today, wrote...

Sunday 12/12/21 Care is a lost commodity. This will sound mean-spirited, but I don't mean it that way. I think it's an inevitable...

Sunday 12/12/21 It's early. I've been working for a couple hours on this Louis Armstrong Christmas piece I should have turned in at least...

Thursday 12/9/21 Home and sweaty from running the stairs. 3000 today, without stopping. Missed yesterday. Did 3000 as well on Tuesday....

Wednesday 12/8/21 Have Yourself a Cooke-ian Little Christmas Is there a greater Christmas gift than art? I don’t think so. For me,...

Wednesday 12/8/21 Binge less, savor more. Revisit. I wrote most of that book proposal, which would be for a short volume on F. Scott...

12/7/21 December 7 has been an excellent day for live rock and roll. I like Christmastime gigs--bands are often in ebullient spirits, and...

Tuesday 12/7/21 Good win for the Patriots last night, one which I fully expected. It's the kind of game they win. Games with weird...

Monday 12/6/21 I wrote a 1600 word op-ed on Buck O'Neil, race, and merit this morning. There are very few places that could consider an...