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...
Lead into an Unhealthy Life
Safe firearm handling is one of the fundamental tenants of being a responsible firearm owner. To reiterate here are the 4 fundamental rules for safe gun handling:
1) Always treat all firearms as ... Read More...
Love as if there is No Tomorrow
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeline Stowe, 1992, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. Love pushes back time. Love pushes back pain and in this same string of... Read More...
Make Them Legends in Your Children’s Memories
Ask them: Have you ever known what was in your father's heart and the things he had to bear? Have you seen or known his scars, carried on his body or more deeply upon his soul? Can you recall your history, his ... Read More...
“Hero” Worship
This has taken a few attempts to write, but it needs to be said. It seems that there isn’t a month that goes by where I can’t open social media without finding out another guy from the Corps died. It’s never so... Read More...
Training For The Time Crunched Athlete
Training For The Time Crunched Athlete I am a husband, father, corrections officer and athlete. In that order. Prior to kids and career time was not a problem and what I lacked, in retrospect, was structur... Read More...