Review – The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
An American imprisoned in the UK for spying for the KGB is released in an exchange to East Germany. Set in 1963, this well-done espionage novel exposes some unique practices…
Violent Mouths and Hating Hands
Magnets. Speaking from experience “In a bar full of hundreds violent men seek each other out and let their hating hands say more than their ugly mouths could ever say…
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…
Warriorpriest Podcast #0105: Midweek Debrief – Michael Kurcina – We Make Ghosts
This book is meant to help you get ahead in life by realizing that you are not the same person, and that you shouldn’t let the past retard you from…
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…