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After reaching 2,000 courses played two days ago, and after enjoying our youngest daughters' performance at the 44th Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, we helped our daughter cross an…

Today was a day full of incredible emotions for me. A day forty-four years in the making. From the time Pastor Drew came to tiny Karmel Covenant Church in rural…

Today I needed to make my way up toward Seattle, to attend the 44th Western International Band Clinic event that my youngest daughter is participating in on Monday. So it…

After finishing up about an hour early today at the Oregon Manufacturers' Summit in Tigard, I thought I would try and get greedy and sneak in ONE MORE disc golf…

Today I was back on the road. This time for a half-day trip North to the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, to attend the Oregon Manufacturers' Summit in Tigard. After having…

After finishing up with two days of work at Vertical Horizons Treehouse Paradise (such a fun experience), I mercifully headed for home today. Getting a few days of having only…

Today was a day I had been looking forward to for months. A chance to experience luxury treehouse accommodations at Vertical Horizons Treehouse Paradise near Cave Junction, Oregon. Such an…

Today I made my way from Redmond, Oregon down to a little Southeast of Cave Junction, Oregon. And since today was primarily just a travel day, I was able to…

Our Oregon SBDC Directors Fall Conference at Eagle Crest Resort finished about an hour earlier than had been planned this afternoon. So I decided I had time to sneak in…

After settling in and attending our first day of meetings at our Oregon Small Business Development Center Directors Fall Conference at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, I quick hustled a…

Today was the day I embarked upon my "heck week" (censored, ha) at work. Four hours of driving on Monday to a conference in Redmond, then four hours of driving…

This morning, I woke up on a mission. I was going to play McVay Rock State Park a little South of Brookings, Oregon. But I was also going to return…

Work for Southwestern Oregon Community College brought me back South, DEEP into Curry County and into Brookings, Oregon for the next day and a half. So while I was in…

It had once again been much too long since I had been able to put work aside and travel to Parts Unknown to enjoy a little disc golf! But planets…

2022 has been such a strange year. One of the best years of my life, and one of the worst, hardest years of my life at the same time. What…

I feel bad. Guilty. It has been too long since I've posted on this blog. :-( But it's been a tough row to hoe. After 85 days of pain, our…

Today marks 67 days since I wound up in the Emergency Room in Kellogg, Idaho with what turned out to be a kidney stone...and I STILL have not passed that…

It has been FAR too long since I have added a blog post here, which means that it has been FAR too long since I have been able to play…

After having about three hours to become familiar with my new office space as Director of the Small Business Development Center at Southwestern Oregon Community, College on Monday, I quick…

After waking up this morning, my kidney stone was still talking to me. Saying: "Hey Derek, it's great hanging out with you! Can we be besties and spend lots of…

Less than twenty-four hours after laying in an emergency room bed, and "floating" around a bit today while on two different pain medications (as a result of the kidney stone…

Well today was a day. What started out innocently enough with bright sunshine and far less wind in Montana ended with me on three new prescription drugs after laying on…

Yesterday's weather forecast said that today might have hurricane-force winds. You know how news media seems to too-often sensationalize the news...in order to keep you glued to your TV (and…

Today was the day. After nearly fifty-one years of calling Minnesota home in my life? Today was the day that I packed nearly all of my belongings and headed West.…

After not being able to sneak in any new courses played during my last ten days in Oregon (being without a vehicle), then after returning to Minnesota and spending the…

Today wound up being the last day I will have access to a vehicle on this current trip to Oregon. A LONG story that I won't bore any of you…

Today I had the opportunity to play with an incredibly interesting Oregon local named Russell Howard, who likes to go by the nickname "Malum." A person who has worn all…