My name is David, and I’m a 29 year old father and husband living in the small town of Greenville, Ohio. I more or less fit the bill of the trendy Christian bohemian – I love indie rock; I take deep meaning from classic and independent films; I find more encouragement and truth in the writings of Donald Miller and Anne Lamott than John MacArthur or Al Mohler; I hold my theological beliefs with an open hand; I take environmental and social justice issues very seriously (but of course don’t do enough about them). Your dad has never heard of my favorite beer breweries. Etcetera. You probably know the drill.
Recurring characters you will read a lot about here are my pretty-and-witty wife Lyndie and my daughter Yoselin (Yosi), whom we adopted from Guatemala at the age of 8 months in April, 2008.
I currently work a totally unsatisfying job as an I.T. Specialist at a bank, and also sell used and rare books on the side. I hope to make this my full time source of income in the next year or two by opening a brick and mortar shop on the charming downtown main street of our little burg.
I’ve been writing since childhood, and hope to publish a book before I’m too old to be obnoxious about it. I write creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and film reviews, though mostly only that first category makes it onto this blog.
I love to hear from readers, so feel free to use any of the following means to get in touch with me!
Email: flightlessd at yahoo dot com
Twitter: @DNilsenKettle
Facebook: David Nilsen (I live in Greenville, Ohio)
Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you here again!
David, shoot me an email if you’re interested in exchanging guest posts on each other’s blogs some time. Thanks (shawnsmucker(a)yahoo.com)
If I may jump in here, you two seem like you’d get along swell. Please be friends.
Hey! You like rare books? You should talk to my father-in-law. He collects them and I think is looking to sell some.
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First off, LOVE the blog. Gonna read more when I have a little time.
Secondly, thanks for subscribing to mine.
Thirdly, we might be twins.
Fourthly, are you on Twitter? If so, what’s your handle? If not, please do so, posthaste.
There isn’t a fifthly, because my two-year-old just brought me a play-dough cake, and I must attend to it.
I’m glad you’re hear. From reading your blog, I think we shall become fast friends and get along swimmingly. Twitter is in the works. I have balked till now.
Just read your post over at Rachel Held’s blog and boy can I relate. I just left a church where I’d been for 12 years over diffrerences that for me were to great to overcome.
Anyway, I live in Cleveland. Where exactly is Greenville? I also work in an unsatisfying job in iT, so I can relate there too. How is your church search going? I’ve decided to take a much-needed break from the church and am just visiting a couple of places right now.
We’re about 4 hours SW of you. We’re about ten miles from the Indiana border, straight east of Columbus.
The search is going okay. It’s very young so far, so we’re only visiting the second prospectice church tomorrow. Thanks for checking out the blog!
Just happened across your blog today via a comment on deeper story.com. Thanks for your raw honesty! Appreciated & refreshing!
I don’t know in which little town, but my maternal grandfather was born in Darke County in 1912.
Melinda has suggested that since her and I are friends, and she and you are friends, you and I should be friends as well. I agree. If you are not reading my blog yet, I would love to get some feedback from you. Peace, and hopefully we will see more of each other on the internets
again with the twins feeling…found your blog through the entry about not preventing your child from becoming a fundamentalist (classic). On a lengthy and painful church hunt. Have adopted. Veering increasingly liberal. A writer. Looking forward to reading more here!