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

If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, Sept. 19th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show…View post

Chickens fed. Now to load books and CDs into car, head for Woodstock, Illinois, and the lovely opera house on the town square. (Tickets available here.) Telling my stories from…View post

If you’re within range of one of these stations tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 19th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show…View post

Bad photograph by me of a lovely watercolor by a reader. If you read the book you know how Tom fought to save that silo.