June 15, 2023

I'm done with buying Father's Day cards

People, I think — even still in our country — live a state of suspension from reality.  They are the ones still wondering what "woke" means, or worse, haven't even heard of it yet.  They're the ones w...

October 27, 2022

The Problem With Fantasy

As a Gen Xer, I came up just as the video games started to become popular, but because we lived in the country, and didn’t have the budgets that people seem to have today, we didn’t have the ever-popular Atari game system to absorb our ti...

October 5, 2022

The Military's Self-Destructing Perception Bubble

During my last few years in the military before I retired in 2020, it was common to hear that "the military-civilian divide is a problem that is getting worse."  Whenever I heard this, it was always in the context that this divide...

September 28, 2021

Nancy vs. my neighbor

My neighbor in rural America is a sweet German woman who lost her husband a few years back.  She lives in an older house on three acres of land here in flyover country, and most of the land has very few trees and has not been converted to a...

August 27, 2021

Biden voters must be feeling some buyer's remorse by now

Yesterday, thirteen military personnel were killed working at the gate at Kabul airport in Afghanistan.  They weren't killed in battle with an enemy at their front with a chance to defend themselves; rather, they were blown up by a...