For years I’ve performed in boots. Not because I need steel-toes in case I drop my poem or my guitar, but because in the moment it takes to lace up…View post

Howdy folks: Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 262. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click here to listen. If you want to listen to a couple…View post

Inverse Customer Service Rule

Traveling friends sent this from their lodgings at Phantom Canyon Ranch near Livermore, Colorado. Long before I ever had a book deal I saved up and went to hear Tracy…View post

Reminded for the umpteenth time how this unplanned random form of self-employment of mine has led from cleaning calf pens in rural Nobbern to equally random moments like the one…View post