Our plum tree is ripening right now. Last year was the first year it actually bore fruit, and they weren’t very good. Kind of tasteless. But this year, already I can tell they’re going to be much better. I wonder if it’s because the tree is just maturing into an...

We’re watching The Hunt for Red October, and while Alec Baldwin is…fine in it, but coming off Harrison Ford playing the same character, we both much prefer Harrison, obviously…it is sooooo goooood. The movie is SO good. I get why Tom Clancy was such a sensation. What...

First day today where I haven’t hit the pages, but there’s a couple reasons for that: one, I had to spend one of my hours this morning brainstorming a scene that wasn’t quite ready when it came down to it, and that set me irrevocably behind on the day, because two: it...