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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Saturday 2/12/22 For organizational purposes. There will be others and there are others, but this is an important list; obviously the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sunday 2/6/22 An op-ed written last week in the interval between rumors of Brady's retirement and the official announcement that...

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...

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...

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...