Once drove three hours through a thunderstorm so bad I sometimes couldn’t see past the hood just to see Eric Taylor, whose songs so deeply influenced my writing. Got to…View post

Howdy folks. For a number of reasons–respect for the health of others chief among them–we have decided to postpone the event in Ladysmith tonight (I was scheduled to appear in…View post

Howdy folks. For a number of reasons–respect for the health of others chief among them–we have decided to postpone the event in Ladysmith tomorrow (I was scheduled to appear in…View post

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s…View post

My longtime friend Al brought his microphone up to my room over the garage. Al and I first met in 1992 when I went on his radio show to hawk…View post