Springcreekland —by Joe Scheidler

Musings from the heartland. Essays with an ecological perspective (generally).

Friday, January 30, 2026

While We Are Distracted

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It’s cold. The mercury didn’t break the single digits today. We strapped on skis and took a couple laps around the north field.  My breath f...
Monday, January 5, 2026

A New Year

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While I slept a new year rolled in, but it was nothing the earth hadn’t seen billions of times before.  Most of the living didn’t celebrate....
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

An Alien Among the Gophers

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I walk with our dog Ouiser through an old goat pasture pockmarked with gopher mounds. She walks gingerly, stiff-legged, like crossing a mine...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

It’s the Going, Not the Getting There

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We packed the truck and travel trailer and pointed the wheels west. It’s an annual excursion, spurred by two sons living on the West Coast. ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Hope is a Tool

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I was recently asked to read some of my essays at The People’s Social , a local winery. It was a good event from my perspective, proving tha...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The God of the Gaps

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I  once worked for a man who was baffled by the fact that a cow could eat green grass and produce white milk. He saw it as a great mystery, ...
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