Tuesday 8/24/21 My father communicates in maybe’s, what if’s, I don’t know’s, and burble-burbles. The pier slopes. It’s a filed,...

Monday 8/23/21 Woke up and composed a new short story before dawn. People who say it's darkest before the dawn are talking out of their...

Monday 8/23/21 * One of the effects of Twitter is it makes you wonder if there are any people in the world having intelligent...

Saturday 8/21/21 I've worked pretty hard today. Pitched a couple horror related things, sent some of the new book--which is one of like...

Saturday 8/21/21 One day a character came out of a book. Tumbled into the world. Or was knocked. Dumped. Well well well, he thought,...

Saturday 8/21/21 Bill Freehan, the long-time Detroit Tigers catcher, died the other day, only seventy-nine-years-old. I knew he had...

Wednesday 8/18/21 When Van Gogh was at his lowest, those who knew him and his family spoke of him in the past tense, though he were dead....

Wednesday 8/18/21 The man tried to find his voice, as the ghost waited. It had failed him, flown away like a flock of birds that had to...

Tuesday 8/17/21 Ran 7000 stairs today. 29,000 since Saturday. A lot. Today on the stairs a charming gentleman screamed at several women...

Monday 8/16/21 Figured out--I think--how to convert the Downtown links to individual mp3 files. I'm presiding over a museum of art. Which...

Monday 8/16/21 * Heard a man and a woman joking today about the people falling to their death off that plane in Afghanistan. "What did...

Monday 8/16/21 A weekend series sweep for the Red Sox against a bad Baltimore Orioles team. A hapless squad in those birds. On Twitter,...

Sunday 8/15/21 * If I ever have a Chihuahua, I will name him Vibrato. When I am in one of my houses, such as the Rockport house, I'll...

Saturday 8/14/21 The full story will likely be in There Is No Doubt: Storied Humanness. *** There was this overweight girl at my school...

Saturday 8/14/21 I was thinking the other day--in my entire life, there have been four people I've enjoyed speaking to at all. Where they...

Friday 8/13/21 Went to the dentist for the first time in too long yesterday. I haven't had X-rays in over three years, and I didn't get...

Tuesday 8/10/21 Cuomo resigns, people talk about Trump. Healthy. Normal. Not insane at all. So much manic obsession in many of the empty...

Tuesday 8/10/21 As someone who follows my career would know, much is always being created at once. That must seem a strange way to work....

Monday 8/9/21 I have decided to remain optimistic about the Red Sox. I figure, resiliency has been their thing/theme, so let's see. If...

Monday 8/9/21 My weekends are all the same. I work, I workout to stay strong enough to endure. I start work each of the two days at four...

Monday 8/9/21 You can tell a baseball team is going badly when it's not hard to tell that in-game misfortune is about to befall it. For...

Sunday 8/8/21 Letter from yesterday morning. *** Quick thought... I would also like to do a short book on William Sloane's 1937 novel, To...

Wednesday 8/4/21 My mom used to make me visit this lady who lived across the street from us named Mrs. Dradey. I thought she honestly...

Wednesday 8/4/21 Yesterday at the Apple store I had to wear the mask. They require it. If a business requires one, I'll wear it. That was...