As folks who have received thank you notes from me can confirm, I have never quite nailed down the spelling of “privilege.”

Heading to Monroe, Wisconsin, Thursday. With songs and stories, and maybe pedal steel. Getting together later today to rehearse. It’ll be good to see my friends the Long Beds. Here’s…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 (about parenting and phlegm)…View post

My father is a quiet, private man. He would never choose to have his son tell stories on him. But I do. Because he gave me memories like this.

What a joy to watch friends at work expressing things in the instant that I struggle to capture on the page. I especially like the one that begins about 3:13.…View post