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Field Notes: Tomorrow’s not promised to men nor cows

Field Notes: Tomorrow’s not promised to men nor cows

​​​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. On my way to get a cup of coffee early Saturday morning, I came across a strange sight along a lonely stretch of rural road. A dead cow was lying in a shallow...
Field Notes: Neither a borrower … 

Field Notes: Neither a borrower … 

​​​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There has been a lot of discussion about student debt lately, and while I have no intention of wading into the quicksand of student loan forgiveness and the...
Field Notes: The cream pie school of management 

Field Notes: The cream pie school of management 

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  A couple of weeks ago, I related a story about my experience in a college accounting class. Accounting wasn’t the only business class I took that...
Field Notes: The summer I turned pretty  sixty 

Field Notes: The summer I turned pretty sixty 

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  A few months before my 40th birthday I had a brilliant idea. To celebrate all those trips around the sun, I would drive I-40 from coast to coast, stopping...