Twenty years ago, after “Population 485” came out, a reader appliquéd cows on these slippers and mailed them to me. They have been in my writing room ever since. Today,…View post

Took a flyer down to La Crosse, Wisconsin, last week and was running through the rain to meet my daughter for a quick coffee when I stopped dead at the…View post

I’m no Sturgill Simpson. I’ve not gone to his extremes. Any parallels I might draw between myself and him are limited and anemic. But they exist, and if not for…View post

Today I was doing an email search for something else and came across this exchange: Grant and his partner Susan own CoffeeTree Books in Morehead, Kentucky. Grant was my editor…View post

No getting around it, a lot of what we (mostly “I” but also “we” and that’s what I’m about to discuss here) post on social media is about me/Mike and…View post