“Two weeks removed from the Green Mountain State and the national park chapter of my life already feels buried in the memory books, a wispy distant past that stopped being real the moment I left Quechee for the Breadbasket states.” Admittedly, I let myself get caught up in the act of leaving, attempts at closure, …
It’s berry season and this has been a God-send the past few weeks. Let me tell you why. Over nine weeks into the internship and we’re into the meat and potatoes part of our work, having an established rhythm of being at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller at 7 a.m., brushing the sleepies out of my eyes haphazardly as …
The fourth of July was a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t seem like all that much time has passed because I’ve been keeping busy with work and my continued adventures in the Quechee area. Back on that holiday weekend, Jacodie and I had our hands full around the condo because we had 7 guests …
I’ve been here in Vermont almost a month now (discounting flying back for #datYoungHoyerwedding) and I’m realizing that saying I’m working at a national park out here doesn’t provide much context for the actual work I’m doing, the park’s history and atmosphere, or even my motivation for fleeing Illinois to the East coast. Back in …
The last time you heard from me may be as I made the trek back across the pond from Copenhagen, heading into my final semesters of school. A year later, I’m a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a degree in Integrative biology, a summer internship in Vermont, and lots …