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Tim Van Deelen

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The Shack

There’s just something about this place. Each fall, we take our GreenHouse students on a Saturday excursion to the Leopold shack followed by an afternoon

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Every Onion

My Badgers played the Nittany Lions, the Big 10 opener, on Saturday. Classes started yesterday. Labor Day came on Monday with bratwurst on the backyard

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Ferns on the Ceiling

It’s unnerving and a little touching when a younger friend of many years seems overly concerned with your safety and comfort, but truth is, he

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Packing for Au Sable

I am packing for my summer teaching gig at Au Sable Institute, both physically and mentally. Mental packing means preparing for earnest discussions we always

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

On Monday, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the sixth assessment report and by Monday evening, the news cycle was ramping up with

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Resilient Flooring

MEMO To the facilities task force: RE: flooring samples The synthetic wood “resilient” flooring we looked at for the chancel is plastic. It’s at least

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The Tension Zone

I’ve missed being north of the tension zone for a year and a half. Part of me never left northern Wisconsin, in the same way

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Ephemera

It was buggy and still at the lower end of Cherokee marsh when I left. Nearly home, a familiar helicoptering-like flight hovered across the inside

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Dorn Creek

Dorn Creek is really a crummy little property. A couple of forties, a few belonging to the state of Wisconsin, a few to Dane County.

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