Michael perry stoughton opera house2/15/2023 ![]() ![]() That I’ll see the canned ham and understand. They were composed during a time of personal and national unease, and often reflect that mood, but just as often veer into humor and hope.Īfter three decades and I suppose millions of words, the fact that I draw from the heart doesn’t mean the specifics will lodge in my mind. The pieces in this collection are no different. Even if it’s a goofy newspaper column, I’m hoping somewhere in there we’ll connect. Maybe one of the book club members will reach out. Perhaps you will catch the reference and drop me a note. Maybe if I could remember which book the club read I could do a reverse search and figure it out. I vaguely recall an anecdote involving my brother and deviled ham, or perhaps it was in a column I wrote, or a story I told, or just something I wrote about pigs. I trust it’s a reference to my back catalog. It was all very pleasant, with one odd element: each woman in turn presented me with a tin of canned ham, and a knowing chuckle. Having built half my career on word of mouth, I’ll stand for a picture with any book club that will have me, and happily did. Million Billion: Brief Essays on Snow Days, Spitwads, Bad Sandwiches, Dad Socks, Hairballs, Headbanging Bird Love, and Hopeįor more information visit .Įditor Beth Williams and publisher John Smalley, with a special thank you to the backup crew: Gayle Worland, Marc Wehrs and Teryl Franklin.Īfter the last live show I performed before the pandemic shut things down and you could no longer in good conscience cram 400 people into the Stoughton Opera House, a group of women in a book club approached the merch table and asked me to pose for a photo. ![]() Roughneck Grace: Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and other Brief Essays from On and Off the Back Fortyįrom the Top: Brief Transmissions from Tent Show Radioĭanger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth’s Gator Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck GraceĬoop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
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