I love what I do and am grateful I am allowed to do it.  And yet, as a freelance writer I never know for sure where the next job is…View post

Wrote a song a while back that has to do with writers and bookstores and a man gone wrong in a Super 8 motel.  The Long Beds and I have…View post

Cissy Moan is a song about a roughneck woman obsessed with southern writers. Here are the real parts: The writer Larry Brown was a great influence on me. He wrote…View post

Folks send me photographs, and I rarely get to post them as I’d wish.  I just came across this one (sent to me by Liz the librarian) and it warmed my…View post

This young lady’s name is Grace.  She came to a reading at the library in Middleton, Wisconsin, and I hope she knows that made me happy.  When I see someone…View post