Dan Reads, Thinks & Writes about Everything

I was in sixth or seventh grade when I was shooting baskets with my friend Steve and he asked me, What are you? I said what? What are you, Catholic or Lutheran or what? I went home and asked my dad and he said Lutheran if anyone asked. That, in a sense, was my Christian education at home as a child. I grew up rather hard on my parents for my lack of Christian upbringing.  this was encouraged by  the evangelical church that I attended as a child.  Today I don't disparage the faith of my parents or the faith of the evangelicals who share "led me to Christ". Both sides of my family were and are essentially nominal Lutherans.  Dad and Mom did not attend church, but when I almost died as a child I was baptized as a Lutheran.  Only two of my aunts went to church for any regular peroid of time. One went to the Presbyterian church in Winnebago, Nebraska, where she taught Sunday School until her children were grown.  The other aunt attended a small Ba...

I posted this comment on Twitter.   #princessanne's manners were deplorable, as were those of the other NATO leaders who made light of President Trump.  President Trump is not a blue blood, what are their excuses.

Cubes, Blocks in a room, Cubicles,  Human resources,  Human capital, Interchangeable parts. Cube Work eight hours, Unplug, Log off, And left. To go home,  To cubicles, To spouse units, Child units,  Pet units, Family units. Until the lights dim, Log off, Power down, And get up to do it again.

The world is going to Hell. Our life on this earth is tenuous at best. Search the scriptures. Trust in Christ Jesus as your King. He is the only way to eternal life.

2020 Time to begin Again. Address book,  Day planner, Paper and pen. No more Zeroes and ones, Hand to book,  Hand to hand Living color,  From the shadows.

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 ...