Of Pigs and Potato Peel Pie

I set out to read a bunch of books in May, and I did so. Most are even the ones I meant to read. One can click through to my GoodReads to see all my reviews, but in passing I’ll talk about the two I didn’t mean to read, but read by accident: The Good [...]

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Two schools and a ball park

I visited two schools this week, but kicked off the week by again reading at the Reading Tree at Midway Park before a Saints game. The action now takes place out around second base, and the turnout was great. Since the kids at these events are a little young for Mudville, I read another homage [...]

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Dramatic Woodchuck Take

I realize now that our woodchuck friend does a dramatic turn worthy of Internet rodent notoriety. Thanks to Michael for noticing.

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Highway 61 Revisited

You might have heard Bob Dylan singing a song once about Highway 61, which back in the day ran from New Orleans to Grand Portage on the Minnesota/Ontario border, passing by Bobby Z’s hometown of Hibbing. Interstate 35 deprecated the relevance of Highway 61 but there’s still a stretch of 61 from Duluth to Grand [...]

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Blog Roundup and Auction

I threw a book into an auction to help a young author. I plan to sweeten the pot in unexpected ways for the winner. I haven’t even decided what those ways will be, but I’ll throw something awesome into the envelope for the winner. You HAVE to follow the first link to see the “possibly [...]

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The Other Guys

I’ve recently been on a tour of readings by the other guys, i.e., other guys who write baseball books for kids, which by chance have been lately blowing through Minneapolis like the smell of lilacs in May. First on the miniature tour was Mick Cochrane, whom I’ve blogged about before. He’s a local guy, back [...]

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A Summer of Books

I have at least 100 books I’ve acquired and not read, possibly 200. I counted nearly 100 at the beginning of 2008 and swore to get through them all without buying any new ones, and lapsed horribly, reading maybe a dozen and picking up twice that many. Since then I’ve bought a bunch of books, [...]

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No Ordinary Writer

This post originally appeared on AuthorsNow.com. I think my favorite author is Charlotte A. Cavatica, a writer with humble beginnings in a Maine barn who has written some of the most beloved words in American literature. The best-known poetic essay of Ms. Cavatica is, of course, “SOME PIG,” which asserts not just the presence of [...]

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Today's the day to buy indie…

Well, every day is a good day to pop over to your neighborhood independent bookstore and browse a little, but today is International Buy Indie Day. Nobody’s going to argue that Amazon isn’t convenient, but the charm and neighborliness of a corner book shop will never be matched, no matter how much Web 2.0 tricks [...]

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