Art & Rugby Endeavors

July 25-27, 2025 Jackson Harbor, Washington Island, WI to Garden, MI Broadening that Farthest Horizon   Back in May, strong southerly...

"I feel like my soul is being purified." --Julia Mangin

Interesting how things unfold when you have an entire weekend at your disposal and a loose, never-ending laundry list of things that may...

The nice thing about abandoning your passions is that the only consequence is the starvation of you own soul.  No one else is directly...

This ride is taking me to some unlikely places. Back in college, I had a hard time seeing how I was going to fit into a professional...

I waited about two years to write this post. I am in the barn--the woodshop, boat shop, and home of Art & Rugby Endeavors. It sits...

Oct 23 2022 Northport to Rock Isle, WI I tried not to get my hopes up for another shot at paddling to the end of Wisconsin as the weather...

24 Sept 2022 Eagle Harbor, WI – Northport, WI I took care to set up my writing station before this entry, so it may come off a little...

Egg Harbor-Ephraim 27-28 August 2022 An interesting and totally unintended thing happened as I gained the big waters of Green Bay....

7/30-31/2022 Green Bay to Egg Harbor, WI I had started behind the barn on the Tomorrow River, where Endeavor was built (and a couple...

July 16-17, 2022 The stretch of this paddling trip that went through the Fox Cities had me most worried. Industrialized river,...

6/3-4/22 Fremont-Appleton, WI Last year I initiated a section-paddle from my woodshop in Nelsonville to Green Bay and hopefully beyond....

It’s been 4 years in the making. I had to renovate portions of the barn to build a shop, ran programming to subsidize rent, weathered...

So, what’s in a name? I’m revisiting the intention to live more poetically, as inspired by a couple different people in recent weeks. Now...

7/16-7/19/21 Stevens Point, Waupaca – Fremont WI Time is such a demon for me. And the alcohol—I’m not indulging in excess, but more than...

Nelsonville, WI – Amherst, WI 6/18/21 Does a beginning necessarily need to occur at the start? What if you can’t find the initial origin?...

With many Endeavors, especially boats for some reason, there seems to be a period of dormancy after the project has been underway but...

On occasion, the lens through which we have so far viewed the world is insufficient to process our current experience. So this evening,...

I do not know the path. I will not pretend to know it, but sometimes I catch glimpses of it. The way forward to a sustainable economy...

So what good can come of a pandemic that threatens the lives of millions and grinds the global economy to a halt? For those suffering and...