by svsauthor | Nov 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
For six years I have been working on a manuscript with the working title West of Sand County. Last week Justin Race, the executive director of Purdue University Press, emailed me to say the production team for the book wants to change the name. He acknowledged there...
by svsauthor | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I would not call it a pastime, nor would I call it a job, but one the regular duties I’ve taken on in recent years is helping Chinese and Chinese American teenagers apply to college. After Manyu and I guided Clare through the process, and after our friends Stefan and...
by svsauthor | Nov 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s been a quiet week on Hackberry Lane. The highlight of the past seven days may have been the annual cleaning of my gutters. I still do the job old school, meaning I climb a ladder to get chest-high to a clogged gutter and then pull out leaves for as far as I can...
by svsauthor | Oct 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
I take a number of different routes when I go on my daily bicycle rides. All of them pass through the marsh, then head off in different directions. This autumn I’ve been using the northern loop more often than usual, mostly because it hugs the Mississippi River and I...
by svsauthor | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Usually when I put two distinct topics into a single blog, I am able to manipulate the content to make it seem like the two topics are somehow related. That won’t happen today. The two topics for this blog, muskrats and deadlines, have nothing to do with each...
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