DWM Through the Years

Me, at the end of decade #1
Deciding which birthday is a milestone seems arbitrary; why are birthdays ending with five or zero more significant?

I guess the answer is a combination of "because I said so" and "we've always done it that way."

My 60th trip around the sun is almost complete.  Yep, it's been a long time.  The last milestone birthday came a year after this blog went live, so I thought it makes sense to gather those posts here as a lead-in to the next big day.

Chapter 1 1960s - the Beginning

Chapter 2 The 1970s - the Wonder-ful Years in Elementary and Junior High 

Chapter 3 Sophomore year of High School Days - Naked and Afraid

Chapter 4 Junior Year 

Chapter 5 I can't talk about high school and not mention Debate Camp 

Chapter 6 Ready to go, my life as a Senior at Janesville Craig 

Chapter 7 For college I headed west, to Iowa  Head West, Young Man!

Chapter 8 A significant development happened during my second year at Drake.

Chapter 9 Before junior year I spent the summer sharing an apartment as a Rising Junior

Chapter 10 School is nearly finished, now what am I going to do? 

Chapter 11 My first post-college job and job as a married man came at KJJC-FM radio in Osceola, Iowa

Chapter 12 Boy we were young, getting married in 1985

Chapter 13 After a year and a half in Osceola, we packed up a U-Haul and headed to Pierre

Chapter 14 We moved to South Dakota and learned they called it KELO-land.

Chapter 15 The job in Pierre was fun and challenging.  More KELO Memories 

You can see some of the news stories from my time with KELO by following this link. 

Chapter 16 Three years in South Dakota, we took a kid with us Back to Wisconsin 

Chapter 17 My second and last TV job was with Channel 3 where I was the Rock County reporter. 

Single topic videos from my news days are at the other end of this link 

Chapter 18 One of the most challenging parts of life up till then was losing my job 

Chapter 19 It took a while for the right job for me came along... and it was selling insurance!

Chapter 20 As my time in sales moved along I started organizing bus trips. 

 Chapter 21 I spent more than 10 years with AAL/Thrivent, then it was time to change

Chapter 22 After insurance I stumbled into development work as a fundraiser. 

Chapter 23 In addition to 10 years in insurance, we lived 12 years in Augusta, Wisconsin 

Chapter 24 Then we moved to Indianapolis where I worked in development at a high school

Chapter 25 It's still hard to believe I worked at a school 

Chapter 26 Time for a little reminiscing, thinking about Where I Grew Up 

By now, you know more about my life than I do - in 2021, I spent time each week writing a life story, of sorts, through a book-writing project by Storyworth.  Follow this link to even more! 

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