Musings
Video: Top of the Pass
This is at the top of the Beartooth Highway – note that snow! Taken in late June. Yes, you read that right – June. The Beartooths have the largest block of contiguous alpine tundra in the lower 48.
Michael’s Summer Reading Picks
Interested in which books Michael would recommend? Here are a few of his summer picks. Click the post to see the full list.
Return to the scene of the crimes…
Now this is what a book tour should be like! I’m sitting at a table outside of the Bearclaw Bakery in Cooke City, MT (year-round population 110 at last census, it is a CDP or “census-designated place”) and a friend I met last year, Cathy Pate, (whose son, Nick,...
Farewell to a great friend
I lost a great friend this week named George Juergens. A retired professor emeritus of history at Indiana University, George was introduced to me years ago by my writing mentor, Bob Hammel. We had regular lunches for years, first in my days at the newspaper in...
Interview with Matthew Ryan
I had the enormous of pleasure of chatting with Matthew Ryan in an interview for Paste magazine. Ryan's lyrics from "Return to Me" serve as the epigraph for The Prophet, and his music has been a consistent part of the writing soundtrack for years. I'd encourage you...
A personal request
Below is a short, personal parody I wrote of a camping trip I took with friends a year and a half ago. We hiked across the Beartooths (they're plural, and it is tooths, don't argue with me) in Montana, a truly incredible trip and great experience. Along the way was...