The Importance of Keeping a Fitness Journal
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.~Lee Haney Why bother keeping a fitness…
Rites of Passage: Coming of Age in Cinema, Role Models and the need for boys to partake of them
Background My father took me to many movies when I was growing up. Thankfully I was able to watch thought-provoking stuff when I was a child. Mostly westerns and war…
Sailors in the Holy Land
The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah. Following the success of his first book about a U.S. Navy flight crew’s desperate battle…
Review – Security Day
Dan Bing is brand new intelligence officer who has arrived in the midst of wind down operations in Uruzgan Province Afghanistan. He has to deal with venial warlord named Mir…
A Brief History of Ginger and Its Benefits to Your Body
The History of Ginger I eat raw ginger in its whole tuber form and even enjoy its spicy bite. I eat it raw because it has some very good therapeutic…
I Have a Rendezvous with Death, Alan Seeger
“What is this war? It is mud, trenches, blood, rats, lice, bombs, pain, barbed wire, decaying flesh, gas, death, rain, cats, tears, bullets, fear and a loss of faith in…
Review – First Casualty
I began reading First Casualty a few days before the disaster unfolded that was our exodus from Afghanistan. From the forward on, I was stunned by the timeliness and salience…
Books from the Ancient Greeks you Should be Reading
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The writer Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote about the three decades long war that left Athens in shambles and Sparta the stronger for it. The Greek…
American cult film WARRIORS based on 400 BC event called the Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)
Who knew the 1979 American cult film Warriors directed by Walter Hill was based on a 400 BC event written by Xenophon called the Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)? There’s a…
The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough
By Alistair Roach; Foreword by Philip Reed Overview Norman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeler of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous…