Thursday 11/7/24 Shake some action--it's what you need. The Animals do a great cover of Sam Cooke's "Shake," on what was essentially...

Wednesday 11/6/24 Today I'm seeing people say that they had a drinking problem, stopped, were sober for X amount of time, and now they...

Wednesday 11/6/24 If a person says that they're cutting family members out of their lives because of how they voted, that person might...

Wednesday 11/6/24 I saw a post yesterday on social media--and it was representative of many other posts I encounter which themselves are...

Tuesday 11/5/24 Given a chance to do or try less, almost every person will do just that, no matter what it costs them, which is the usual...

Sunday 11/3/24 There are writers--many of them--whose name you see and you know what they were thinking in writing that particular story,...

Saturday 11/2/24 The value of a work of fiction is directly related to the amount of life it contains. Life should permeate every aspect...

Friday 11/1/24 We've spoken before about Michael Ray, the editor in chief of the literary journal Zoetrope , and we're going to keep...

Wednesday 10/30/24 Two stories began back in May with a storm. It was early in the morning--what most people would consider the night,...

Wednesday 10/30/24 No matter how clear something is, no matter how many times you've stated matters, explained them, nor how thoroughly...

Wednesday 10/30/24 Find me a more meaningless term than "award-winning." Wrote an op-ed. Likely won't be moved. Not now. Will write at...

Tuesday 10/29/24 Want to mix it up? A lot of prose offs are upcoming. I'm working on a story today and I thought it'd be apt to use it on...

Tuesday 10/29/24 Looks like the Yankees are getting swept. I expected a better showing from them and a tight series until that Freeman...

Monday 10/28/24 There are pieces of music by the Grateful Dead which causes me to wonder if that's the best music I've ever heard. For...

Monday 10/28/24 One of the AI prompts--which you cannot turn off--when I open a new entry now is "Literary Magazine Showdown." Yesterday...

Sunday 10/27/24 I got in what is late for me on Friday night and saw the very end of the first game of the World Series. I knew where...

Sunday 10/27/24 Among the matters I've not done a good job with of late is keeping up to date on fitness accounting. Can't go day by day...

Friday 10/25/24 It has been very difficult to keep going. I've really had to fight not to give in to things over the past few days. I...

Friday 10/25/24 We've talked about how the people of the publishing system--for whom the system exists so that those people can be the...

Wednesday 10/23/24 Friend today tells me that they want to start dealing in what I call the reality of my situation with me. My situation...

Wednesday 10/23/24 The Twilight Zone is a number of things as a program from episode to episode, and sometimes within an episode. It's...

Wednesday 10/23/24 I've been sick unfortunately. A couple of mostly lost days. This began on Sunday. Barely did any stairs Monday or...

Wednesday 10/23/24 We have a saying here: You can't fake voice. A lot of people try and fake voice in their writing. You have stiff,...

Monday 10/21/24 Yesterday when I got to the bottom of the Monument after I had finished my circuits, there was a line of people waiting...