Wow.  The straight-line winds have arrived.  And left chicken coop windows open last night.  Scared to go look… P.S. OK. Looked.  Deluge of rain hit at same time. Running through…View post

Weird.  On Moose Country 106.7 the other morning, Jay Moore mentioned Molly Pitcher.  Grade school history came rushing back.  I don’t think I’ve thought about Molly Pitcher since before I…View post

At some point during the Coop hardcover tour in 2009, I picked up the Library of America’s Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works and have been working my way through it off…View post

Tonight on the UW-Eau Claire campus I’ll be giving a talk titled “Writing from the Chippewa Valley and Beyond” at 7:30 p.m (details here).  At 4 p.m., Dr. Colleen McElroy…View post

Tomorrow night on the UW-Eau Claire campus I’ll be giving a talk titled “Writing from the Chippewa Valley and Beyond” at 7:30 p.m (details here).  At 4 p.m. that day,…View post