I woke up around 4:25. It will be 5:20 when I finish writing this. Last week I kept telling Betsy, Toni Morrison woke up at 4AM, even after a night of partying. Maybe this was me threatening myself to do the same. I read this week in an essay Bobby…

I woke up around 3:30. When this is over it’ll be 4:44. The swelling has gone down, the birds are going at it and I lit the candle on the desk, the one on the windowsill. I bought a CD last week, of an album I stream all the time…

They take Lightfoot’s Brown Line, her White Line, from Damen, because Lightfoot’s Red Line, her Black Line, is a National Disgrace. They get off at Washington n’ Wells, the Corner Bakery still there, and the other place where they fell in the snow, now a Chicago Bagel Authority. There isn’t…

Anise said pick 12 songs from 2016 that did not need to be ‘released’ in 2016, just the songs that you listened to that shaped your year. I found this picture from December 31, 2015, the day I gave the double-finger to Rodin’s Le Penseur. …

An early dinner in Vilnius, Lithuania — When I’m traveling I like to dine alone, way before dinnertime. I’m the only patron and the hostess says I can sit wherever I like. I choose a table far away from the terraces and windows. Enclosure is my goal. The restaurant, Bistro 18, is Italian and also serves a…