FIELD NOTES
October 30, 2025
I’m Antone Hempstock, an ASE Certified Master Technician with 17 years of experience under the hood and the founder of Lemon Squad Auto Inspections, a multimillion-dollar company that changed the way people buy used cars. Before creating Lemon Squad, I spent years inspecting vehicles for other companies while working as a technician at a Honda […]
October 30, 2025
#3 is not what you might expect I built the multi-million-dollar company, Lemon Squad. But I never went to business school. Never had an internship. I was a mechanic, driven by anxiety and an over-active mind, so you better believe I learned a lot of my entrepreneur lessons the hard way. Today I want to […]
October 25, 2025
Fear is a strange thing. What strikes terror in one person’s heart doesn’t faze another person at all. For me, I could drive motorcycles at super fast speeds, pushing them faster and faster, just to see what they could do. Opening up my 2017 Harley Softail Slim (with a built 120R) on a backcountry road […]
December 30, 2024
Today, my mind is on how many people have helped me throughout my life. I am where I am today in large part because of the support and love of my grandparents, who I call Ma & Pa. I’m also the recipient of a whole lot of good will from law officials and judges who […]
November 15, 2024
For a lot of people, the holidays are a great opportunity to take time off and enjoy being with friends and family. The last week of the year can be an ideal time to relax, travel, have fun and celebrate. A lot of people look forward to this week all year long. This is not […]
November 9, 2024
Raven’s gone for a week visiting family on the west coast. She’s with her uncle, who is a great friend and father-figure to her. We even moved out to Portland for a time to be close to him. (And she would probably still live out there, if it wasn’t for me needing to come back […]
November 1, 2024
So how did I get over my fear of taking medication? It wasn’t easy. Desperation played a big part in it. Really, I just finally surrendered. Over a few years, three major events happened that sent me lower than I had ever gone. My wife was in a horrible motorcycle accident. I watched it happen. […]
October 23, 2024
Roamers are on my mind a lot these days. Specifically, a 1997 classic Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro, “Rhomer the Roamer,” which was sitting in our driveway until a week ago. The Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro is a perfect vehicle for roaming. Volkwswagen started making them in 1985, an all-wheel drive version of the Volkswagen van. The Vanagon […]
October 16, 2024
Hiking is one of the main ways I take care of my mental health. It’s walking meditation for me. Being out in the woods is a key way to unplug and quiet my mind. My anxiety levels are much better managed when I get on the trail and zone out, so I try to do […]
February 19, 2024
Hi. My name is Antone Hempstock. I’m a new member of Lake Superior Writers. I’m a new writer, too. Well, new to publishing my writing. Actually, I’ve been writing poetry and memoir for a while, but it’s been mainly for myself or people close to me. Now, I’m starting to publish my work. My memoir […]