Goldilocks of Giving
Once upon a time, I gave my all. I gave my all to everyone and everything in my life. My eagerness to drain my own well came from a place of deep insecurity. I’d been left before, abandoned by both family, frie... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with a TBI: Part 2, Transitioning
“These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book How do I not take this home... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with a TBI: Part 1, Relationships
"Memories are just where you laid them
Drag the waters till the depths give up their dead
What did you expect to find
Was there something you left behind
Don't you remember
Anything I said when I said, ... Read More...
The Forever War, Living with TBI : Introduction
"Hi, my name is Jordan and I am about one IED short of being fully retarded." Anyone who met me or knows me will attest to the fact that when you meet me or we have known each other for a period of time, a... Read More...
Spotter Up Writer and Deputy Sheriff Bill Farmer on SROs
After reading the debrief from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and the failure of law enforcement, Deputy Sheriff and SRO Bill Farmer did what he does. He wrote. He expressed his disappointment and concer... Read More...
An Open Letter From Your SRO
To My Community, My Parents, My kids, As I’m sitting down to write this, I’m fresh off of reading the comprehensive break down of the mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I’m sittin... Read More...
What ‘Being A Father’ Means To Us from Arminius Tribe
This year Robbert, Robin and me took our kids for the second year on a 3 day hike in the mountains of Andorra. Nothing Useful Is Taught The Army
Or, ‘I will not be able to use any of these skills later ... Read More...
A Walk in the Park
The other day I was walking through a park. It was just after sunrise, and the pooch needed water as we finished a few hills. I approached an area with a sole picnic table, which overlooked a small lake an... Read More...
More Precious Than Diamonds
Don't be a dumbass today. Connect. "To see someone you love release their pain from their eyes isn't as if those rivulets of moisture are magnificent tears more precious than diamonds, no, in fact they are ... Read More...
Chasing the Dream from Arminius Tribe
I was watching the eight o’clock news with my parents, it was 1986 and I was 11 years old. The reporter had an announcement to make, ‘Secret Special Forces Unit in the Netherlands’ and with that announcement a ... Read More...