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The beginning of something bigger… What a strange 24 hours. It started yesterday afternoon when an assignment for my Mythology and Symbols class required me to do an enchantment exercise. It was meant as a way for us to break away from the left brain control and focus on the right brain instead. Leave behind […]
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Ahhh… Where Freedom Rests… This meme has been floating around interwebz lately. It was a place I had nearly forgotten about. But, I was there once. It was 2004 and the insurgency in Iraq was in full swing. The Military Police unit that I was in was spread thin and spread out all over the […]
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Even though I have rarely agreed with him and his platform, I had hoped that President Trump would be a better president than I had imagined and that America would be better off. In fact, I still hope for those things. However, his near constant and unfiltered Twitter tirades leave much cause for concern. For […]
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Even though I rarely agree with him and his platform, I hoped that he’d be a better president than I had imagined him being, and America would be better off. However, this kind of talk is dangerous for our republic. Apparently, he also forgot that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 MILLION people, […]
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You’re a good person, aren’t you? Of course, you are. You are well mannered and polite, would never hurt anyone else intentionally, and would only strike out in an attempt to protect those you love. I’m willing to be bet most people are this way. So why do we have such restrictive laws? If someone […]
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When is it cool, to be a cool parent? Or what’s a cool parent? When I was a kid, the cool parent was the one who let you go out and party, or even party at home with your friends. My mom was one of those. Yep, I had a “cool” mom – well she’s […]
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So I left the Army about 4 years ago, got a job right away and stuck with it for a few years. I was never quite happy with it though and jumped ship when something better came up. Well, that ended in a cross-country disaster with a move to Texas from Washington and then from […]
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What a crazy election! It’s been long and grueling process starting with the primaries last year and ending with an incredible upset last night. Who would have thought that Donald Trump, aka Cheeto Jesus, could have pulled off the stunning upset that he did?Almost nobody, apparently – to include me. So congratulations to President-elect, Donald […]
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September 11th, 2001. On this day 15 years ago, the largest attack on American soil took place at the hands of terrorists and claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people and injured well over 6,000. These people came from all walks of life, different ethnicities, prayed to different deities and originated from nearly 100 different […]