Category: Field Notes

  • Outside my back door

    Our back yard is the Tippecanoe River. We don’t actually own it but we can borrow it any time we like. There are two dams on the Tippy as it flows through our town, and we live on Lake Freeman, formed by the lower dam which was completed in 1925. It’s not a majestic body…

  • You’d think this would be easy

    I’ve easily blown past the ten thousand hour rule for self-improvement. Many times. If I have developed any particular skill it’s got to be in the messy business of starting something new. I’ve gone through the start-up phase of so many careers, projects, commitments, and adventures you’d think I’d be good at it. It’s not…