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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.

When I got my job on 'Parks,' it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.