About Me and My Blog
Hi, I’m Dick Stannard. I’ll tell you a little about myself and why I decided to write (and curate) a blog…it was all by accident (the blog, that is, not me!).
I am retired and enjoying the good life with my wife, Lynn. We spend half the year in Lakeland, FL, and the other half in Lake George, NY. We are originally from New York and have four daughters. Three of them and their families still live near each other in upstate New York where we raised them, about 40 miles south of our summer camp.
I am a proud parent, grandparent, and, recently, great-grandparent.
My interests include computing, blogging, digital photography, travel, gardening and golf.
I try to read the bible through every year since I retired but sometimes I miss by a few months. I do finish, however. More importantly, I try to let it change me.
How I Became a Blogger
Lynn – Author
I handled the mechanics of independently publishing and marketing my wife Lynn’s first book, Precious Memories. She isn’t too tech savvy so I set up a simple blog for her to help create awareness for the book and to keep writing the kind of stories she had included in Precious Memories.
Well, Lynn didn’t like blogging but I found that I did!
But what should I blog about?
I did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that the most important things to me are my faith and my family and I speculated that these two areas of life would have meaning for a lot of folks.
I also enjoy photography (mine and other people’s) as well as travel (mine and other people’s).
How I Chose the Blog Title
But choosing these four topical areas instead of focusing on only one or possibly two seemed to create a need for something to tie them all together.
Enter my long-held opinion (conviction, really) that there is too much bad news and that it arrives in too shrill and/or almost combative settings on TV and other media.
So I decided that my blog would be heavily weighted toward good news tastefully presented…My World As I See It.
There you have it…the birth of a new low-paying ($0.00!) job as a blogger. I love it!
Why have I styled the Blog as mostly curated material from other sources instead of mostly content that I, myself, generate?
- I wanted it to be visually appealing – lots of video, photos, and other images.
- I wanted audio – music for sure, but other kinds of sounds, too like people talk, animal sounds, traffic, etc.
- I wanted a much wider spectrum of experience and expertise to be presented than I possess myself.
- Since I already surfed the net looking for just this kind of content for my own viewing/listening enjoyment and edification, why not share my world as I (already) see it on a blog.
VOILA! I had the title – Dick Stannard’s Blog – My World As I See It
My hope was and is to find people who share some or all of my interests and values and to engage in a two-way dialog that will be worth the time for both of us. (I really hope it will be exciting and thought-provoking and valuable to you and to me… but I don’t want to set the bar too high and scare either you or me away!)
Is This Blog Worth YOUR Time?
I hope so!
If you are a Christian trying to figure out how to be true to your faith in a world that is showing more and more resistance to the presence of Christianity in many aspects of life including, free speech, education, sex/gender issues, commerce, entertainment and more…
I can promise you this: as we go forward, you will find an expanding variety of stories, commentary and helpful information designed to make it easier to identify important issues and how to navigate the narrowing space between holding on to our Biblical Christian beliefs and values and the outside forces that seek to normalize new anti-Christian customs and practices and even to legislate against long-held Christian beliefs.
- Some will add to your knowledge
- Some will make you laugh
- Some will make you cry a tear or a lot of tears
- Some may even make you angry – righteous anger at injustices in our world.
I can also promise you that I will do my best to keep the quality of all types of content high. That means I will research for authenticity and will provide sources of the content that does not originate with me.
Meet me often at dickstannard.com. And when you come, please leave a comment so I know you were there and what you thought about what you saw/read.
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Check Out Some of My Popular Posts
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