The post office says it will take a couple more days for my proof copies of it’s going to be all right to make the last 77 miles into our mailbox, so I’ll see the new book only 24 hours before the world does, but that’s OK, I’ve read it already.
The book is an introduction and 52 short essays that got their start in this space. The point is that this can be an alarming world but it’s going to be all right. We need encouraging words at times like this, so I thought I’d put a few together.
If you want a preview, here are the first five pieces after the introduction.
It’s my 12th book, but who’s counting? (I shouldn’t kid myself; I’m counting, obviously.) Thanks to the folks who have pre-ordered it in advance of the “official Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 lunch date.”
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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