…good neighbors. An excerpt from something I’m working on about our good neighbors (the guy riding the bike is 82 years old; Jane is my youngest daughter, a tiny toddler…View post

Revision: my favorite stage in the writing process. This is when the obsessive-compulsive tendencies that frustrate me to the edge of madness throughout the rest of the process (and daily…View post

The band and I will be doing two shows in January. One in Northfield, Minnesota, and one in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. As it says on the calendar: Appearing onstage with his…View post

Pleased my recently-declared worldwide moratorium on the phrase “killing it” in reference to musical performance is finally taking hold. Next: superfluous beards. Feel my power. Also, yesterday I shaved.

Eric Taylor: One of the finest lyricists I’ve ever known. Scuffletown still transfixes me, after all this time. Bottom line: American literature, plus guitar. And once he bailed me out…View post