Michael Perry's Voice Mail

Jan 5, 2025 | michaelperry.substack.com | Michael Perry

Howdy folks:Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 245. In honor of the final week of the NFL football regular season, this one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen. In this episode I explain how the very first time I attended a professional football game, I was on the field with the team. As has often been the case with my career, I got there by coming at things from an angle.

Dec 8, 2024 | michaelperry.substack.com | Michael Perry

I was still Michael Ryan in those days. Howdy folks:Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 241. This one’s subscribers only. Click the player above to listen. In this episode I head down to the pole barn on another random archive dive and find yet another article I can’t for the life of me remember writing. It’s a humorous piece about my cowboy da…

Dec 1, 2024 | michaelperry.substack.com | Michael Perry

Soughing. Sighing. Shushing. Sifting. Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 240. This one’s subscribers only. Click the player above to listen. In this episode I emerge from a week in the woods with some thoughts on why I wish the word “sough” was pronounced differently, but why I still like how it looks, and why I was thinking about it in the fi…

Nov 24, 2024 | michaelperry.substack.com | Michael Perry

Photo taken from inside the blind at 6:28 a.m.Howdy folks:NEWS FLASH: IN THE RECORDING I SAID IT WAS EPISODE #238. IT’S NOT. IT’S #239. Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 239. This one’s subscribers only. Click the player above to listen. These weekly Voice Mails are brief—5-12 minutes—but I take my responsibility to subscribers seriously, inc…

Nov 3, 2024 | michaelperry.substack.com | Michael Perry

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Howdy folks:Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 236. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen. Today I found myself drawn to revisit a piece I wrote about a song called “The Healing Day” by Bill Fay. It’s the piece from which the title of the book Peaceful Persistence came.