I check in by telephone from a hotel room last night and my wife tells me she was cleaning an upstairs room with our ten-year-old daughter while the three-year-old played…View post

Canned corn yesterday.  Neighbor Jeremy and I shucked, my wife and our friend Karen boiled, cut, and canned, and our eldest daughter helped wherever needed.  Jeremy’s oldest son pitched in,…View post

Thanks to John Connell, who has put up a Flickr album of the recent Cadence/Meridene/Long Beds show down to Phoenix Park.  It was warm, and I was wearing my New…View post

I’ll be crossing the waters of Lake Superior today in order to participate in a discussion of Coop with the Madeline Island Literary Society.  At the Madeline Island Public Library,…View post

After a get-together with friends and family (we’ll be flying two flags today, USA and Panamanian) it’s in the car with books and CDs and stories and northbound to Stagenorth…View post