Loading the van for Oshkosh. Lakefly Writers Conference tomorrow morning, Long Beds concert tomorrow night. Grabbed the guitar case, got gut-punched by these stickers, placed there by tiny hands a…View post

Twenty years of notes and emails and near-misses, finally got to see Jeffrey Foucault live last night. Was everything I hoped. Man’s music has fueled and informed so many of…View post

This week’s Voice Mail is free and includes a caption that explains the situation in the photo above. Click here to listen. P.S. for our blind or low vision followers,…View post

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