“You live in Shakopee?” The woman with Mondovi hair and white, shiny teeth behind the counter of the DMV asked me.
“Yep,” I said.
“What brings you out here?”
“I used to live in Prior Lake.” I paused for a minute while I tried to remember how to fill out a check. As I was signing my name [...]

Life is full of mystery, I guess. A few weeks ago before the funk that ate Manhattan descended on the Sister Club, Sister #2 was yabbering on and on about what a great week I was having. I got a big, fat raise and my world-famous turkey chili won the annual Hell, Inc. Chili Cookoff [...]

working on sunday morning blows. the only thing that makes it remotely bearable is coming in and finding a big Amazon box on your chair. and then opening it and finding a bounty of new books from the kindest miamian you know. and as i sit here trying to write the newsletter i have to [...]

oh yeah darling ones. it’s time. . . i gotta give out some mad, crazy props to dan over at redcricket.com. he has worked some kinda magic where now, when you post your delightful comments and your hip little url, if you click on that url your site will pop open in another window. ta-da! [...]

oh! my cup runneth over. i am not worthy of such kindness and generosity. you have left me stunned and smiling. seems that john over at perry lane threw his hat into the “Sweetest guy in the whole wide world” competition, along with matt and eric. wow! i’ve got elliott smith spining in the cd-rom [...]

it looks like ol’ bakiwop has a little competition from eric in the sweetest guy in the whole wide world catergory. i just got a beautiful copy of Peter Pan in the mail. it’s so pretty i could cry. thank you thank you thank you.