Hello, my name is Dave Knechel. Good luck pronouncing my last name (nek' ul). I grew up in Flemington, New Jersey, but moved to the Orlando, Florida area in 1981.
When I moved here, I got a job as a hard line/ad layout artist for the Belk Lindsey department store chain. I later worked for a couple of ad agencies and printers, but left the graphic design business in 2007. Previous to that profession, I worked in the restaurant industry and walked around smelling like an onion for years.
When I was 4 years old, my grandparents bought me a “paint by number” oil painting kit. I did not like it at all. It wasn't creative and the paints were inferior. How I knew they were junk when I had never even seen oil paints before is still a mystery to me. I told my parents and they bought me a real set. My first painting, at 4, was the Rock of Gibraltar because my father sold insurance for Prudential back then. One day I will retire and go back to oils. In the meantime, I will try my hand at a little writing.
Please read my interview, 5 Questions With: Dave Knechel
Thank you, Growing Bolder!
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Ina
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Posted 12:45 pm January 1st, 2009Best wishes for you and your family in 2009 from Toussaint and me!
Ina
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Posted 6:10 pm December 30th, 2008Just 24 hours till 2009 for me... means you have 30. And so much to do. Like sleep. How are you doing?
Dave Knechel
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Posted 7:21 pm December 24th, 2008Thank you, Ina, and the same to you and Toussaint!
Ina
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Posted 2:48 pm December 24th, 2008Merry Christmas!
Dave Knechel
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Posted 8:53 pm December 11th, 2008Knowing that you really enjoy yourself here makes me very happy, Ina. I am so glad.
Ina
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Posted 10:57 am December 11th, 2008I use that comment thread a bit too often I think. But it is so much fun here. Much more than watching tv, that is very depressing these days. I am almost sorry we are going out toninght, because I want to read all about the Middlife galls...
Dave Knechel
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Posted 10:47 am December 11th, 2008I think most people are naturally inquisitive. When they read a conversation here on Growing Bolder - or on a blog, for that matter - they become a part of it. Hopefully, it entertains and prompts them to join in. Moreso here, where it's almost like a club. Our memberships give us all a common thread.
Ina
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Posted 10:32 am December 11th, 2008'You can read into other writers' personalities. '
And that is good you reckon...? (I much rather linger on someone elses place
Dave Knechel
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Posted 10:23 am December 11th, 2008Definitely, you should respond to a comment where it was written, not at the person's site. Readers like the back and forth banter and to answer elsewhere would be confusing, to say the least. People wouldn't think to go looking someplace else. Also, the comments can tell a story of their own as the conversation progresses. You can read into other writers' personalities.
Ina
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Posted 10:16 am December 11th, 2008Thank you for explaining compelling. I think I should answer here on comments you make, not quite sure anymore
Ina
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Posted 4:54 am November 30th, 2008Ahum, thank you
Dave Knechel
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Posted 5:40 pm November 29th, 2008By the way, I like your avatar!
Dave Knechel
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Posted 5:40 pm November 29th, 2008Oh, you caught me. Yes, most of the time I did the asking, but they could have said no. There's no crime between consenting adults, that's for sure.
Ina
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Posted 5:08 pm November 29th, 2008Did they have to ASK for a drink? Didn't you offer?
Ina
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Posted 5:02 pm November 29th, 2008Buying a drink for some one in order to get that person to go home with you is something else than when one thing naturally leads to another. Or is it
Dave Knechel
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Posted 4:02 pm November 29th, 2008Solicitation is not a crime in the broad sense of the word. Solicitation can mean many things, like an entreaty or a plea; asking for help. Charity organizations, for example, can get permits to beg for donations at busy intersections. They walk right up to your car and thrust the "offering" bucket at you. That's solicitation by petition. There are plenty of other examples and I don't think it means the same thing in every community throughout the United States. I mean, I've had plenty of women ask me to buy them a drink at a bar. That's solicitation, but is it against the law? Would I ever call the cops on them? Heck, I used to buy them drinks and ask them to go home with me. Who was soliciting who in the end?
Actually, only in law is the term 'solicitation' defined as the crime of asking another to commit or to aid in a crime.
Ina
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Posted 2:16 pm November 29th, 2008So boldly I am getting my feet wet here. Nice
It recently occured to me that there is a Dutch translation hazard, as the Dutch word 'solliciteren" means apply for a job. "I read your add. I want to solicitate." It sounded reasonably English to me. Somehow I now think many (Dutch) careers have been smotherend this way.
"In the United States, solicitation is a crime; it is an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or something else of value in order to incite or induce another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime." (wikipedia)
Dave Knechel
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Posted 10:07 am October 26th, 2008I look at "bold" as a word meaning not afraid; to be adventurous. I think that's what it means here, at Growing Bolder. You know, as we get older, we slow down. Here, it means to not be afraid to still get our feet wet, that no challenge is too much; that there are still worlds to conquer.
Ina
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Posted 4:43 am October 26th, 2008Defining and translating can be hard!
For years I thought Bold & the Beautiful meant the bald one and the pretty one. I still don't really know what bold means. I looked it up in the dictionary and I can choose out of these Dutch translations: dapper stoutmoedig, doortastend, onverschrokken, brutaal, vrijpostig, schaamteloos, onhebbelijk, krachtig, fors, eruitspringend, goed uitkomend, karakteristiek,duidelijk, scherp (omlijnd) steil (afoplopend _> loodrecht, vet, levendig,
as bold as bras = hondsbrutaal, zo brutaal als de beul,
bold description = duidelijke beschrijving,
bold imagination = levendig voorstellingsvermogen,
which is a bold word = en dat zegt wat,
put a bold face on the matter = doen alsof men zich de zaak niet aantrekt, zich goedhouden,
make so bold as to disturb o zo vrij, zo brutaal zijn, zich de vrijheid veroorloven, zich verstouten om iemand te storen,
make boldwith something. = zich vrijheden met iets veroorloven, iets vrijelijk gebruiken.
I think the Bold in the Bold and the Beautiful means nice guy
Dave Knechel
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Posted 8:35 pm October 25th, 2008Here's how Wikipedia defines Swamp Yankee:
Swamp Yankee is a colloquialism that has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to Yankees or WASPs (northeasterners with colonial ancestry) from rural Rhode Island and nearby eastern Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts. The term "Yankee" connotes urbane industriousness, while the term "Swamp Yankee" signifies a more countrified, stubborn, independent and less refined subtype.
Is that how you would describe your loving husband? A stubborn, less refined subtype? Tsk. Tsk.