Neat, humbling, unexpected, and fitting: students using my writing in forensics competitions. Fitting because when my 7th grade English teacher introduced me to forensics she gave me survival tools I…View post

Blasted out some Tweets about writing and small towns last night. They are Storified here.   [View the story “Small Town, Big Words” on Storify]

In one of those stretches where at the base of it all I’m glad I was raised up to just put the boots on and get to work, Nobbern-style.

In the process of researching the history of my hometown (New Auburn, Wisconsin) (now Population: 562) (urban sprawl!) for the book Population 485, I discovered that the town’s founder David…View post