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). This week’s…View post

Inspired by a Tweet thread posted by old friend and deep-hearted songwriter Christopher Porterfield, I hereby re-up the brief essay “High Fashion” from Million Billion: I have just been to…View post

All gratitude to family, friends, neighbors, and above all, my wife.

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). This week’s…View post

My ’51 International pickup has a younger cousin in Mexico. Touch of Bondo, splash of paint, good to go. Oh, and one front wheel.