Odd to be hunkered down working on the NEXT-NEXT book three weeks before the NEXT book is out, but that’s how it works (and already a bunch of material assembled…View post

Elk Mountain, Wyoming. Dad bunked here as a ranch hand in the early 1960s. I bunked here in the early 1980s. Visited last week. Still stands rock solid beside the…View post

Just broke from the treadmill desk to walk on actual earth beneath blue and puff-cloud skies, the breeze pushing through maple leaves, the chit-chit of two skirmishing birds… The world…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). Today’s column…View post