Hands down (!) the most personal piece I’ve ever written. From the book, “Danger: Man Working,” available here.

In what would have been a smoky irony I once nearly burned my house down with this bad boy while fighting a barn fire. Details in Chapter Six of “Truck:…View post

That moment when you’re reading one of your essays live for the very first time–before a convention center full of librarians, no less–and you realize although you know what it…View post

Nothing like automatic voicemail transcription to get your hopes up.

An entire chapter in this book is based on my absent-mindedness (the one about forgetting the van has become a favorite at parties) as it relates to the 16th-century French…View post