I have an early flight out in the morning, taking me to Madison, Wisconsin, for the North American Association of Environmental Educators (NAAEE) conference. I’m doing a presentation with Jenn Grimm, from the PWI, about the experiences we are having setting up a collective impact model for environmental ed here in the Puyallup watershed. Perusing the schedule, it looks like it’s going to be time well spent. (The keynote is coming tomorrow night from David Suzuki, one of my all-time heroes. That alone is going to be worth the trip.)

My mother was from Sheboygan Falls, and Wisconsin has always been a very special part of who I am. And it doesn’t hurt that on Thursday evening, after our presentation has wrapped up and official convention business is concluded for the day, the Bears and the Packers are playing in Green Bay. That’s a pretty short drive on a pretty straight road… #lookingforaticket