Every goddamn day: 11/10/24

  Last month's special fiction week was well-received, so I thought I'd dedicate another week this month to another specific them...

    Where is the line between preparation and excess of caution? A matter of opinion, no doubt—a jack in your trunk is essential, one...

    What is an authentic person? And why does someone who lives in the woods, drives a rusty blue Chevy pickup truck with various pro gu...

     "So how does any man keep straight with himself," Nelson Algren asks, in The Man with the Golden Arm, "...

     The seasons cycle, winter to spring to summer to fall, without a beginning or an end. So we humans, who very definitely begin and end...

     A  Russian proverb says that, during a man's life, he should: have a son, write a book and plant a tree. And had you asked me, ...

     In the newspaper biz there is an expression, "burying the lede," which means to put the most important part of the story, ...