Those two fissures are everything. Torpedo heater down there doin’ its thing. Fingers crossed. Snow tapering off and temps moderating for a couple days so there’s a shot.

Young family member calmly removes smoking pan from stove, carries it outside to porch…story really kinda tells itself.

This was my father’s trumpet. It’s beat, bent, and busted. But I just blew it here in Pine Hollow Studios so we could put some distant notes behind a song.…View post

Behind the scenes at The Local Store & Volume One Gallery in Eau Claire, where I just signed every single book in that pile, including the new Montaigne paperback.

Well, this is a new one: Cleaned the wood stove, then carried the ash bucket all the way into my office above the garage before realizing I never dumped it.…View post