{"id":11175,"date":"2021-03-16T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/?page_id=11175"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:45:03","slug":"11175-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/welcome\/the-cries-of-my-heart\/memos\/11175-2","title":{"rendered":"Moderator&#8217;s Education, Professional, Volunteer History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oygrvhab\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"j83agx80\">\n<div class=\"buofh1pr\">\n<div class=\"rq0escxv l9j0dhe7 du4w35lb j83agx80 pfnyh3mw jifvfom9 gs1a9yip owycx6da btwxx1t3 jb3vyjys b5q2rw42 lq239pai mysgfdmx hddg9phg\">\n<div class=\"rq0escxv l9j0dhe7 du4w35lb j83agx80 cbu4d94t g5gj957u d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz rj1gh0hx buofh1pr o8rfisnq p8fzw8mz pcp91wgn iuny7tx3 ipjc6fyt\">\n<div class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\"><strong>A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF MODERATOR&#8217;S LIFE<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">Born and raised in Minnesota<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201859-\u201960: Religious College<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201860-\u201961: Lost, without direction; lived with uncle in Minneapolis<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201861-\u201962: Dunwoody Institute (Minneapolis) \u2014 Studied surveying<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201862-\u201963: Surveyor for MN Highway Department.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201863: Met wife; joined Army (stationed in France)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201865: Back Home from Army; reconnected with future wife; back to work at Hwy Dept. in St. Paul.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201866: Married; lived in trailer home; worked for Highway Department; Night school at U of M<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201867-\u201971: Full time at U of M; Pre-engineering and Architecture<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201870-\u201975: Worked for Surveying, Engineering and Architecture firms in Twin Cities.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201875: Moved to outstate MN for job as a Regional Planner.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201877: My wife and I started a bookstore. I started a new Job with a Community Action Agency (a non-profit that helps low-income families). At various times I was the Director of Housing, Assistant Director, and Executive Director of the agency. \u201893: I quit my job and went to work with my wife in the bookstore in a new location.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201898: Started a in partnership with five other couples.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201801: Closed the bookstore. Started selling books from home.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201801-\u201907: Odd jobs and volunteer work. Closed bookstore in 2021. Worked for Battered Women\u2019s Shelter \u201804-\u201906 as Director of Communications and Fund Development.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">In &#8217;06, My wife and I remodeled the interior of old house for our son and his wife.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">\u201807-\u201908: Part time work as Guardian Ad Litem; Volunteer work: Women\u2019s Shelter; Habitat for Humanity; Circle Sentencing Restorative Justice Program; Mentoring; Began addition to our home; Heavy duty grand-parenting.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">&#8217;09 to present: More grand-parenting, volunteering (Hospice, Teach English as a second language to East Africans), mentoring, beekeeping in our backyard, home remodeling, reading, website development, shooting pool, bonsai; growing orchids, gardening, and writing.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">&#8217;16 to &#8217;19: Work as a part-time field representative for the US Census Bureau.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ii04i59q a3bd9o3v jq4qci2q oo9gr5id\">2019 to present: Fully retired except for blogging and gardening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF MODERATOR&#8217;S LIFE Born and raised in Minnesota \u201859-\u201960: Religious College \u201860-\u201961: Lost, without direction; lived with uncle in Minneapolis \u201861-\u201962: Dunwoody Institute (Minneapolis) \u2014 Studied surveying \u201862-\u201963: Surveyor for MN Highway Department. \u201863: Met wife; joined <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/welcome\/the-cries-of-my-heart\/memos\/11175-2\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":11131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14230,"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11175\/revisions\/14230"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}