A Brief Interlude

I’m pushing away from the keyboard for a few days to enjoy the outdoors, family, good conversation.

Speaking of good conversation, I was asked recently to be a guest on a podcast hosted by an educator I greatly respect. This is the first of a two-part interview. The topic is ostensibly my novel, Miracles Along County Q, but what we really are talking about is our life and times, the many deficits in our society right now, the change of heart we could use, and why stories like the one in Miracles are needed now more than ever.

The show’s host asked wonderful questions. Fingers crossed that my answers were half as good. In a social media post after the episode dropped, he said: “What’s special is that even though Mike spent his formative years in a city of less than 1,000 and I spent mine in a city of over 8 million (New York), we ended up sharing many values—especially things like democracy, advocating for the common good, and (as comes out in our conversation) opposition to cruelty in all forms.”

In lieu of the weekly article I usually share, I hope you can spare 30 minutes at some point to give this a listen.