Came back to the desk to find this on my computer screen: Can you guess what happened? Answer below (don’t be distracted by the smudges, they’re electronic and I put…View post

If you missed last weekend’s Tent Show Radio episode featuring the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band it can now be heard online. During the monologue at intermission, Mike discusses why he…View post

“We plunge into love with a naïveté that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach for love again and again.” (Applies equally to…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 walking to work…View post

Did the window-to-window centerline breeze-shoot with my neighbor yesterday, he’s given up on getting the corn in, going with soybeans. My oats have been four inches tall for a week-and-a-half.…View post