Find The Shade – Survive The Island Greetings from the island everyone. Hope all of you are doing well and enjoyed your Fourth of July weekend, wherever you may have been. As with all summer holiday weekends, Barnacle and I stayed on the island and enjoyed watching the annual POC fireworks show across the bay. […]

Halt, who goes there: friend or foe?  This is the call from the sentinel in the playwright’s story.  This leads to the larger question many of us can ask about things that we are involved with in life.  The term friend or foe can quite easily be changed to good or bad. We were reminded […]

7/1/2013 – JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md — The cool breeze and darkening night slowly embraced the German landscape with a tender grip; all seems well in homes full of urban life, bustling about. However, events quickly turn tense when all sounds are interrupted by the clash of metal grinding asphalt; the sound of a motorcycle […]

I was flooded with emotions as I suddenly realized we were flying away from our team. This was my first cross country trip in a small airplane; for the next four days I would fly with a pilot in a Cessna 182 from Iowa, Wyoming, Oklahoma to Alabama. As a part of the “chaser” plane, […]

Family Shopping Besides being the humble writer of this column and dabbling in other forms of freelance writing, I also have worked a large portion of my life in retail. Like any other job, retail has its ups and downs and its gives and takes. Working both in retail management and in the thankless trenches […]