Tools of my trade:

Apple. Back when PC files weren’t readable on Macs, my two biggest clients insisted I switch.

Babel Fish Translation. Free.

Britannica Online. Subscription.

Canon PowerShot G5. For those catalog-writing product review/pick-up meetings.

The Chicago Manual of Style Search the Manual tool. Better than nothing, but only barely—you still have to find the results of your search in the print edition. If they put the print edition online, I’d pay to use it.

Franklin Covey. I still record my days on the original two-page-per-day paper calendar.

Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Subscription.

iPassepartout. Despite its strange name, this desktop search tool (“pass-par-two”) is only about a zillion times faster than the Macintosh Find utility.

Visual Thesaurus. Subscription.

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Things and people I like:

Artists’ Quarter. The great St. Paul basement jazz club. Our other second home.

Berryman Outsource Bookkeeping. Need a bookkeeper? Contact Beverly.

Carleton College. Where I learned to write.

Crossing Borders Studio Tour. Enjoy the fall colors on Lake Superior’s north shore while meeting fine craftspeople like Dick and Debbie Cooter, Mike and Tonder and Jody Friej-Tonder, and Lee and Dan Ross in their studios.

Custom Woven Interiors Ltd. Kelly Marshall makes beautiful and durable handwoven textiles—rugs, throws, place mats, upholstery. Visit her studio in the Northrup King Building in northeast Minneapolis.

Dakota Bar and Grill. The elegant Minneapolis jazz club. Our second home.

Don Berryman Consulting. My Web site designer and friend. An encyclopedic knowledge of jazz.

Doxikota Miniature Dachshunds. Where we got Carmen, formerly known as Karma, a.k.a. the Red Devil, the Red Rocket, Carmen Miranda, Carmen McRae, and Nine Pounds of Spring-Loaded Action.

Fortney Consulting. Need a human relations consultant? David’s your guy.

Frank Stone Gallery. Always something interesting at this Northeast Minneapolis gallery.

Google Maps. Bye-bye, Mapquest!

The Grand Hand Gallery. Owner Ann Ruhr Pifer likes a lot of the same artists and craftspeople we do.

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Jazz Police. Don Berryman’s terrific jazz and travel site.

Jazz88 FM. Our local independent jazz station. Listen online.

Michael Knott. One of my favorite jewelers. If Duke Klassen and LaDes Glanzer had a Web site, I’d include it here, too.

Minnesota Potters of the Upper St. Croix River. Take the tour. Meet the potters. Buy pots.

Momentum Photo. Motorsports photography by my handsome, talented, brilliant, entertaining, Mac genius, motorcycle-riding son, Jonah Klevesahl, who’s also an IT guy at Fallon.

Northern Clay Center. Our amazing and unique local center for the ceramic arts.

Alex Packer’s Paris Apartment. The perfect place to stay in the City of Lights.

Partnering Intelligence. The Web site of Partnership Continuum, Inc., by my friend and fellow author Stephen Dent.

Susan Perry. An excellent writer (and good friend) who specializes in health and medicine. Author of several books. I’m probably an idiot for listing her on my site.

Punch Design Inc. Rick Korab, talented and patient designer of my logo, stationery, and business cards.

The Rake: Secrets of the City. Everything worth knowing about and going to in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

The Studio Potter. Potter Mary Berringer edits this highly respected magazine about potters and pottery.

True Blue Electric. The company of master electrician and pottery fan Carol Anderson.

The Writer’s Almanac. Sign up to receive the Writer’s Almanac by email and start each day with a poem. It can’t hurt.

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