Why Read and Write
If you want to be a great consumer, throw away nearly everything and fill your life with books. Why do I write? Why bother? Writing is really important because it…
Sunday Inspiration: We are Young Lions
“Spring nearly over now and the world destroying time brings summer here. In youth we stood with our highest chins against it, our strongest postures, our suntanned faces, yet now…
The Fight Within: How The One’s We Love Destroy Us And The One’s Who Love Save Us
The Fight Within How The One’s We Love Destroy Us And The One’s Who Love Save Us I left a good part of me in Iraq after my first tour…
Sunday Inspiration: The Yakuza
The Yakuza is a 1974 Japanese-American neo-noir gangster film directed by Sydney Pollack. The film is about a man named Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) who returns to Japan after several years…
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…
Training: A Family Affair
We all both enjoy and take seriously our efforts in improving our abilities. We endeavor to build ourselves into as capable and lethal an individual as we can become. There…
A Manifesto on Exceptionalism, or “The Shoe is on the Wrong Foot.”
Since the earliest days of humanity, the adventurers, the entrepreneurs, and the risk-takers have enjoyed the benefits of a more interesting existence, coupled with the rewards that come from taking…
Down, But Not Out: 5 Rules for a Productive Recovery from Injury
Life has a way of throwing the unexpected at you. We are not always able to carry out our plans and continue on in our daily routines and habits unimpeded…
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…
Punishers and Spartans
Spend more than a day in the “tactical” industry and you will easily be consumed by an over-saturation of hyper-masculinity in all the wrong ways. Nothing displays this point further…