Friday 2/28/25 "Why are you calling me?" usually sounds accusatory but it can just be a question. The person hearing it is almost certain...

Thursday 2/27/25 I need to work so much harder and with greater efficiency and consistency. What I'm doing now will produce matchless...

Wednesday 2/26/25 Running around getting various things tended to, but I saw the news that Jeff Bezos--a spectacularly bad...

Wednesday 2/26/25 The BC men's hockey team is back atop the national rankings again. Last year's squad had more depth and high-end...

Wednesday 2/26/25 Some classic dramatic radio programs can sound silly to people listening seventy years later. There are hokey touches,...

Wednesday 2/26/25 This world is an ugly, awful place. It is a torturous place in which to be if one is intelligent and decent. The more...

Tuesday 2/25/25 I wake up hours before sunrise and the first thing I often do before getting to the desk is take a quick look at the...

Monday 2/24/25 Ran five circuits of stairs in the Monument on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and then 5000 at City Hall...

Sunday 2/23/25 Five in the morning on a Sunday and crying on account of "Hero of Mine" after stepping back from it for a few days and...

Saturday 2/22/25 The term "experimental fiction" is used by people who have no ability to write and are attempting to cover that up while...

Saturday 2/22/25 Regarding most people: It's their error but it'll be someone else's fault. Typically, people only want to talk about...

Friday 2/21/25 We've spoken about One Story before in some of these prose offs , and we'll be getting more into their editor, Patrick...

Thursday 2/20/25 I saw this video online about a large turtle who was unhappy. Actually, he was pretty angry. He didn't like his life....

Wednesday 2/19/25 Quite a few new stories are about to be finished here, so this morning I thought I'd head on over to Granta , home of...

Wednesday 2/19/25 People talk like they're going to die forty or fifty years before they're statistically likely to (even as people in...

Tuesday 2/18/25 It Came from Beneath the Sea  (Robert Gordon; 1955) is a strange movie with a solid ten or so unintentionally funny...

Tuesday 2/18/25 Signs suggesting that the 2025 Red Sox will be a mess are already in evidence here in mid-February. You can start to tell...

Monday 2/17/25 What I'd expect to see happen in the Four Nations tournament...for Canada to make a goaltending change, defeat Finland,...

Saturday 2/15/25 "Hero of Mine" isn't quite done, but it will be soon. I'll mail it to the kids--after I figure out how to set up the...

Saturday 2/15/25 Little stymies human growth--or is less of a spur to it--than false positivity. You are not doing anyone a favor but...

Friday 2/14/25 My last couple years in college and then after I graduated, I worked a bunch of jobs that never lasted long. I was a...

Thursday 2/13/25 People's near-total lack of curiosity has much to do with the killing off of humanness. Their interest in themselves...

Wednesday 2/12/25 Ambrose Bierce was given the moniker "Bitter Bierce," which I always thought was unfair. Bierce cared a lot. That's why...

Monday 2/10/25 Friend shot himself with a nail gun last week, spent seven hours in the ER. Mostly waiting. Which I guess helps calm you...