Over the past three weeks or so, I’ve spent the weekdays fumbling around balancing Elizabeth’s care with working from home. I’ve done neither altogether too well, but in neither case has anything dire come from my incompetence. There are two days left, so here’s the obligatory knocking-on-wood.
During that time, Elizabeth has required all [...]
It isn’t about how the past has become damaged;
it’s about how we can build a better future.
It isn’t because I don’t love you enough to stay;
it’s because I love you enough to leave honestly.
I do harm to the family we can all be a part of if
I think that, through an honest appraisal, I did [...]
I’m amazed at the capacity of some to so fully indulge their excuses for vileness that they profane against those they claim to love. They don’t know love; yet they would destroy in its name.
You’ve given yourself the excuse of a broken heart as an armor, and, really, I don’t care anymore. Against [...]
Part Three: Culture Shock Troops
Part One: The Beginning of the End
Part Two: All You Need is Love
The obvious need for the letter is to prevent different presumed spirits of intent from coming into conflict without some means of objective resolution. Communities of all sizes and constitutions develop codified systems of rules to standardize such [...]
Part Two: All You Need is Love
Part One: The Beginning of the End
Part Three: Culture Shock Troops
I have, for the most part, come to terms with the fact that I will need to fight for my rights as a father to four of the seven children in my life. It gets better. [It [...]
Part One: The Beginning of the End
Part Two: All You Need is Love
Part Three: Culture Shock Troops
In 1986, I joined the Air Force JROTC squadron at Lebanon High School. For those unfamiliar with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), the U.S. military has established a program through which to educate young men and women [...]
I have many things to note here, but some of the things that have motivated reflection are themselves impeding such notation. I have caught myself looking forward to a slower time when I might be able to return to some reasonable schedule of publishing. A time when each and every day isn’t a [...]
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