This week, I needed to head to Nashville, to attend the ASBDC conference for work. With roughly 1,500 people in attendance, it was the largest conference I have attended in…
After one more family gathering earlier this afternoon, we had one itty-bitty nine-hole course I hadn't yet played in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hillcrest Knoll, that was on our way back…
View from the Hole 2 tee at North Valley DGC in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. After getting settled into Minneapolis the past couple of days, my first time back in…
I wrapped up my housesit with those six cats this afternoon, and had about four hours of time to kill between leaving the housesit and checking into my hotel for…
After doing my darnedest to keep six "roommates" (cats) happy last night and this morning, I thought I would set out to cross a few courses North of the Columbia…
It has been far, FAR too long since I have been able to get out to play and enjoy some disc golf. It has been a combination of factors. Work…
A lot of mixed emotions today, as I got to spend my morning enjoying 27 more holes of disc golf, only to spend the afternoon meeting with a neurosurgeon in…
After approximately eighteen hours of meetings with colleagues in the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network the past two days, and after saying some quick goodbyes to several friends, I…
After spending the past eighteen hours presenting at a conference in Brookings, Oregon for work, I needed to make my way ~4.5 hours North to Eugene, Oregon for another work…
It had been FAR too long since I have had the chance to sneak off and play a little disc golf (in the midst of having two full-time jobs and…
This past week has been a whirlwind of activity! I needed to travel to Birmingham, Alabama for work, to attend a Rural Guided Pathways Project conference with the National Center…
Planets aligned for me this morning. My being stuck waiting for several sets of disc golf tee sign contacts to get back to me with feedback and approvals on their…
Over the past few years, I have participated in several lively conversations about what makes a place to play disc golf a "course." Specifically, how I have determined how many…
As I began to near 2,000 courses played, the goal I quietly had in my crosshairs since reaching 1,000 courses played in Inman, Kansas on February 27, 2017, I started…
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…
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.…
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…
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…