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New numbers and a new category – “Numbers”. Today marks the three month anniversary of my retirement from the EPPD. I wrote a post (click here) three days into my retirement showing my life displayed in four numbers: days lived before cop, days lived as cop, days lived after cop and total days lived. I [...] Well, it’s 10:06 am Tuesday morning and I’m at Dunn Brothers Coffee in Excelsior. I’m sitting at the desk in the back conference room with another guy who’s doing some work on his computer. If I sit at the far right side of the desk I have a view of Lake Minnetonka. [...] The following is the “Chaplains Message” I wrote for the most recent issue of Minnesota Police Chief, the official publication of The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association. A Retirement Tale: Climbing Down the Mountain Well, the day has finally arrived. I am no longer a Police Chief. I am now a retired Police Chief. No [...] The following is the invocation I offered at tonights Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association Annual Awards Banquet: Dear God, We once again thank you for this opportunity to gather in the spirit of our profession and its mission, To Protect and To Serve. We thank you for the opportunity tonight to acknowledge and recognize the outstanding contributions that [...] The following is the invocation Iwill give later this morning at the opening ceremonies of this year’s MCPA Executive Training Institute. Dear God, We give thanks today for the opportunity to gather in the spirit of public safety leadership. We are all individuals with differing faiths, beliefs and convictions. However, we come together this week with a [...] One of the things that I am dealing with through my career change transition is establishing a routine. In the old job much of my routine was imposed by someone else. Now my routine is essentially whatever I want it to be. I miss a lot of my old routine, and a [...] Yes I know, that’s not how the saying goes but that’s how I feel right now. I figure I spent 25 years in my first career so I’ll probably do the same with my next. I really don’t ever see myself not working, maybe not employed, but not, not working. So when [...] This Friday, April 13, 2007, there will be a presentation by Jeff Streucker, at the Emmanual Christian Center. Friday, April 13 7:00 p.m. A special invitation to all our men and women in our community who are serving or have served in one of these capacities: Jeff is a career Army Ranger who shares his story as [...] After two weeks of spring break / visiting relatives in Florida I’m back home and back at work. Since my retirement from the PD back in January, “back at work” has a whole new meaning. Although I was greeted with a backlog of e-mails (many of which I kept up with while I was gone) [...] Here is the excerpt from “The Tender Bar” I promised in Monday’s post. On Friday afternoons Bill and Bud would quiz me about what I’d read that week in school. They would then cluck with disgust and take me around the book store, filling a shopping bag with coverless books. “Every [...] A couple of weeks ago I finished “The Tender Bar” by J.R. Moehringer. It is a memoir that Cam read as part of her book club. She thought I would enjoy it since it was a story about a kid growing up who wanted to be, and eventually ended up being, a writer. For [...] |
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