Hi, my name is Tina.

I like driving on back roads, watching arachnids and breaking into runs down rockydirtyleafy trails.

Here’s what I’m thinking (and the details are far from fleshed-out): I’ll tell you some stories about my job in the state parks and my research along the Missouri River. You tell me your stories.

I’d love to see a family affair with multiple contributors, but I acted faster than I could think and bought a domain under my own name and it might be silly to ask others to blog under it. Although, Kate Harding does and she’s successful . . . so if you want to join in, let me know.

The blog title has something to do with my rural-mail-carrying great-great grandfather Walter Keaton, Sr., to whose letters I see a connection to blogging, and to whose locality I see family and state history. Really, that needs more research. So far I have a picture and vague references from his son.