My booking agent will verify: We are not allowed to close out the booking file until I write the thank you notes. I also sent one to the artist who…View post

I do nearly all of my writing on a keyboard. If I’m using a pen these days it’s usually to jot notes on a Post-It or a gum wrapper or…View post

This Nickolas Butler profile (read it here) of Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig made me feel old in the best way…took me back to being the farm kid writing bad…View post

Never won a Pulitzer, but my book was in a parade. And memories like this are why I’ll never catch up on thank-yous.

Third or fourth grade. I did a diorama book report on Moby Dick. Don’t recall if I read the whole book. Pretty good shot I did.