Dan Reads, Thinks & Writes about Everything

On 02/29/20 20 I will celebrate 20 years as part of the staff of my library.  This is admittedly a long time if not too long.  Yet I am too young to retire and too old to look for a job at another library.  So do I stay and rot and become a blight on the library and the future library director  I don't think so. Here's my plan to make the rest of my years at my library meaningful. I am putting more emphasis on working with the genealogy and local history section of the library.   Continue to write my library columns and newsletters, as well as writing small chapbooks on local history issues. Do more presentations.  I had been promoting library concerts for several of the last years I will spend more of my time doing presentations of things our patrons would find interest.  to act as a liaison to the arts and humanities communities. Vocalize the importance of libraries to a conservative community.

The story goes that when I was born the doctor took one look at me and said, he will have problems all his life.  The statement was true.   The first thing that my family noticed was that my eyes moved uncontrollably.  They didn't know why.  They couldn't fix it.  And my parents couldn't afford it anyway.   I didn't find out until I was 35 that my optic nerve was too small.  This meant that my eyes were constantly adjusting in order to see.  A person with a regular optic nerve can do things like this with no problem. I struggled in school.  I started school in special education.  I moved out of special education and continued to struggle with my vision, but I did relatively well even though my vision was not correctable.   I felt that I was called to become a minister.  I went to college after high school.  I caught herpes of the eye and struggled with out breaks each year, but maintained a 3.23 grade point ...