As my friends and colleagues know, I’ve had a long and wonderful career as a landscape architect, then an urban designer, and then leading the planning department for the City of Eugene. Serving our community for many years was immensely rewarding. Before that, I worked in landscape architecture design firms in Portland OR, Germany, and Maine, creating beautiful places for people, as well as habitat restoration, waterway improvements, and other cool projects. Before that, I worked in archaeology, digging and sifting human history for hundred-hour stints in the baking sun. In all these career paths, I grew in ways I’d never thought of before.