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August 26th, 2010
Today I saw workers pouring cement. I wanted to walk through it, but I didn’t… Take a look at this map. When I was five-years old I lived here (the house marked with the red circle and arrow): This is 566A Brady Drive, Fort Campbell, KY (Clarksville, TN) My family moved into [...] August 26th, 2009
I heard about Senator Edward Kennedy’s passing late last night before retiring for the evening. My first thought was, “There goes the supermajority.” My next thought was Chappaquiddick. Then I began thinking about how much I disagreed with his politics. I began to muse over the Massachusetts law preventing the governor from making an interim appointment to fill the vacancy [...] August 24th, 2009
The other day I began this story about my favorite hat. I explained how I got the hat, how much that tattered treasure means to me, and how I came to the heartbreaking decision to finally retire it to prevent it from falling apart. Now it’s time for me to explain why I call the hat the [...] August 20th, 2009
It was October 2001 and my platoon was on a field rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana. For anyone who has ever been in the Army, you are probably very familiar with what training exercises like JRTC are like. The rotation lasts almost a month, with about two weeks of [...] April 24th, 2009
When I was about 11 years old, I used to hang out with a bunch of kids at a decrepit playground close to where we all lived on Fort Eustis, Virginia. The park was secluded in a grove of old trees, so there was always a dense layer of leaves and fallen branches on the ground. [...] April 5th, 2009
Today is Sunday. It was one week ago today that I made my pledge to write for an entire week. I technically accomplished that goal yesterday. However, I feel like writing more is better. So, I’m going to see if I can keep going. No promises for a post every day, but I’m going to try. My [...] March 2nd, 2009
If you’re like to rest of the people who read the Internet, there is a good chance that you may have gone to the Google Website today. If you did, you may have noticed that their Google Nameplate looks like this: Google's Nameplate Image on 2 March, 2009 The reason for this is because today is the [...] |
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