After my last snowplowing episode I bought chains. The good news? They work great (as the photo below indicates) (and thanks, patient local parts store guys who helped me order…View post

Based on emails, comments, and underlines, this may be the most popular line I’ve ever composed: Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Playboy combined. –…View post

This week’s excerpt is from Truck: A Love Story (hardcover here, paperback here, eBook options here): Those of us who covet International pickups nurture a perverse sort of pride. Open the…View post

Sometime in early 2006 on a mountainside in rural Panama I finished the final draft of Truck: A Love Story, zapped it to a flash drive, hiked into town, rented a…View post

Sometime back in the 1990s I scuffed my knuckles getting it out of grandma’s basement. I remember clambering on it at Christmas when I was a tot. Now I share…View post