Art & Rugby Endeavors

12/19/2025

Huge thank you to Bound to Happen Books for the opportunity to speak and everyone who came out to check out the presentation of Connecting the Waters on Tuesday night.

Looking forward to three more talks in successive months to talk about each of the three boats. Next up will be a talk about the cedar strip canoe Ripple:

Portage County Library
Monday, January 5, 6:00 pm

Bound to Happen Books

12/02/2025

Looking forward to some story telling and all the discussion that’s Bound to Happen.
Bound to Happen Books

11/10/2025

It’s finally out there. Next printing will be available by Christmas. https://www.artnrugby.com/product-page/connecting-the-waters-the-gifts-of-three-boats-a-memoir

08/18/2025

A little wordy, but this was a great adventure. Thanks for tiur support, Beege

July 25-27, 2025Jackson Harbor, Washington Island, WI to Garden, MIBroadening that Farthest Horizon Back in May, strong southerly winds thwarted an attempt to paddle through the Potowatomi Islands, north of Washington Island. It was actually Bridget who suggested we shoot for another weekend for it....

08/10/2025

Paddle Quest weekend. Lots of activity on the water, in in the weather, with lots of friends.

11/18/2024

Still some things to work out and finalize, but I did a thing.

03/25/2024

Got a good dose of quality time. So fortunate to not have to go far for it.

Interesting how things unfold when you have an entire weekend at your disposal and a loose, never-ending laundry list of things that may or may not get done. My Saturday started out productively enough, but after a few hours in front of the computer I grew restless. I took Poe for a walk in the suns...