It was a bit of a zig and then a zag (not to be confused with a wig and a wam), as I bounced from New Orleans up to Nashville to see Randy Newman and then 300 miles back down south to give a reading near Auburn University.

There, I stayed with Ron Riekki, a Ph.D. writing instructor at Auburn who says he never read much of anything until joining the Navy in 1987 after graduating from high school in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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