Speaking of work-life balance, I was just reading an article in The Next Web, written by Richard Walton. I think it has some take-home points for small to mid-size organizations with whom I work. The title is “Why We Need to Shatter the Illusion of Work-life Balance for Entrepreneurs.” …

(Originally Published May 2003 by the OSU Barometer) As the days get hot, people get naked outdoors! One day last year I was paddling solo down a beautiful creek in the Midwest. I was scouting a route for a trip I’d be bringing the following week. We started out in…

Touch your eyes. Not too hard. :P How far apart are they? There’s this principle that the space between your eyes is commensurate to the size of your body. How far apart are the eyes of a mouse? Yeah. Like really tiny ’cause they’re tiny. Right? How far apart are…

Last weekend was my first solo adventure in a long while. I headed north to lower Michigan’s national park: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It formed from legislation the year I was born, in 1970. Public land around private inholdings from Point Betsie to Leland was federally protected (click…

On this summer’s road trip adventure, we saw many examples of teachable moments. Taking advantage of unforeseen circumstances to help others more fully understand an idea. Most National Park Service personnel are exceptional at this. In Yellowstone there was an overly reactionary fly fisherman (O. R. F. F.), blowing…

Over one hundred years ago, the National Park Service was born (here). President Woodrow Wilson signed the “Organic Act” on August 25, 1916. This created what Wallace Stegner called “America’s best idea” (here). We have come to know our National Park System very well over our years of road…

This weekend a longtime friend comes down our stairs wearing a black T-shirt. White lettering. It was easily recognizable by anybody who’s known us in the last 10 years. We had a social drinking club in Tucson, Arizona known as Truesdays. Our mission was that we knew there would be…

For me, one characteristic that endeared me to New York City is the mix of old with new and developing. When we left rural Northwestern Arkansas for 10 months in the Big Apple, I was prepared for concrete. I was not prepared for history. But it was there, everywhere, in…