This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

Over the weekend, I wrote that I knew two golfers with heritage in Norway – Victor Hovland, who shot a great last round to win a PGA Tour event last week, and me.

At least, as I said, I think I know myself.

As for Hovland, his course record – 61 – was easily one of the best rounds this year on the PGA Tour.

Well, yesterday, I learned that there is another golfer who says he shares Norway as the home of his forbears, at least some of them.

In the spirit of full disclosure, he said his heritage comes both from Norway and Germany.  So he is not full Norske.

I won’t provide his name here.  He prefers anonymity.

But this blog will clarify my statement that there are two Norskes.

No, there are two-and-a-half.