Campaigns/Elections… Notes from the Campaign Trail 12 Jun 2018 And there I sat, looking at the ballot with my name on it: Scyller J. Borglum for Representative of District 32 in the Republican Primary. Five months of knocking on…
Abundant Life… Theodore Roosevelt National Park 23 Sep 201723 Sep 2017 I love this petite Park to the North. Once a quarter I make my way north up SD Hwy 79 to ND Hwy 22 and then west on I-94 at…
Grad School How To… Tribes 14 Aug 201715 Aug 2017 Stick out right hand, shake firmly, "Hi, my name is Scyller and I like black coffee, have a scrappy gutter dog, and have lived in every time zone in the…
Life at the Front Lines… You Drive It (Part 3) 17 Jun 201719 Jun 2017 And then the four months finished: paperwork for admission and graduation submitted in the same semester; three courses completed; and 9950 unabridged miles on the road written in tire tread.…
Life at the Front Lines… You Drive It (Part 2) 10 Jun 201719 Jun 2017 Summer 2016 rolled along and I finished my work in West Virginia. Three days on the road home to South Dakota provided just the time and space I needed to…
Life at the Front Lines… You Drive It (Part 1) 8 Jun 201721 Jun 2017 "That's not crazy. That's Scyller-normal." So said my friend of more than two decades. January 2016, I started looking ahead to a number of career possibilities, half of which require the…
Life at the Front Lines April Winter MT Driving 9 Apr 2017 Walking through the door last night to my home away from home, my arms still shook and my legs would not stop twitching. Mary hugged me before my bags hit the…
Best Practices… Rote Trips (Part II) 26 Mar 2017 This semester an opportunity presented itself that simply could not be passed up: finish my bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering at MT Tech (while living, working, teaching and conducting my…
Life at the Front Lines Rote Trips (Part 1) 28 Feb 201724 Mar 2017 Rote: mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. A rote trip differs from a one-off road trip in that you have the advantage of experience. Rote trips, by definition, have…
Abundant Life… Ridiculous 22 Nov 201622 Nov 2016 Every writer, entrepreneur and creative type I read about has one unexpected commonality: gut-leadening fear of putting "it" out there. Occasionally, the compulsion to put forth one's work is so…
