A while back I talked about pigs with Yael Grauer of the food magazine Spezzatino. The entire interview is available here as a downloadable .pdf. Yael asked some good questions that led the conversation off into a few less-common corners.
A while back I talked about pigs with Yael Grauer of the food magazine Spezzatino. The entire interview is available here as a downloadable .pdf. Yael asked some good questions that led the conversation off into a few less-common corners.
I’m back home. I can hear the rooster crowing even as I type this. So good to see my wife. Her blue-eyed smile. Have just had a great morning in the office with my girls. They drew and cut up scrap paper while I unpacked the accumulations of the road. Also took a walk out the lane with the young one on my shoulders to check the corn…I got half of it cultivated before I left. The cultivated half is thriving. The uncultivated half is pale green and stunted, but I believe it still has a chance if I get out there in the next couple of days.
Regarding the tour and things in general, I expressed my thanks via yesterday’s Shelf Awareness post, and remain grateful.
And now for fun, a couple of pictures. During the tour, we often discussed local foods and sustainability (although I tend to avoid the “s” word, as it is in danger of becoming over- and mis-used). We regularly patronize Eau Claire’s own Just Local Food cooperative, run by friends and neighbors of ours. Lately there has been some obstructive road construction near the store, and it was fun to open my email in the motel room the other day and find some photos from Larry Glenn (the man who did the live recording of my humor albums Never Stand Behind A Sneezing Cow and I Got It From the Cows) illustrating how the Just Local crew has been dealing with the traffic trouble (their logo is a carrot):
I have been blogging the book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In today’s post: I meet my fairy godmother, and then I go home.
I’m blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #8: Can you spell Leinenkugel’s?
I’m blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #7: Songwriting in a coffee cellar.
Seriously, bud? Your taste in jazz is so exquisite that you have to turn your computer speakers up and set them in tinny competition with the coffee shop sound system, currently playing Blind Boys of Alabama? Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a polite Midwestern boy. (Delightfully, he was caught out when – apparently forgetting that his player was set to “mix” – the jazz song came to a close and was followed heels-on by the opening riff of AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells.” Dude nearly broke his wrist fast-forwarding to a free-form sitar piece.)
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In report #6: Finally, some clean socks.
I’m blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #5: The Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
I’m blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #4: I use the phrase, “tumbling underwear.”
I met Connie at a bookseller’s show and she told me she had done this interview a while back.