The Joy of Combat
Important Note: Combat does not just mean fighting overseas. Combat is the military fighting a foreign enemy, law enforcement officers fighting for their very lives, firefighters rushing into a burning…
Playing Pranks on Your Teammates Can Build Your Team Up or Tear Them Down
One of the best pranks I’ve ever read about was the prank played on American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon by a tribe of Yanomamo indians of the Amazon rainforest. I don’t…
Love should take away all of your excuses to die.
“If you do not use your own torture in an effort to end your pain then you are a fool who wastes his tears.”~Michael Kurcina You have to tell the…
Strength of Strings
I was out running and listening to Gene Clark’s “Strength of Strings”. Incredible. His song is powerful yet simultaneously fragile. Clark stared out onto the Pacific Ocean from his Mendocino…
A talker is all smoke, a doer is all fire
“A talker is all smoke while the doer is all fire and each must learn to control more and less of what they intend to be.”~Michael Kurcina Fire 🔥 is…
The Odd Gods of War
Oracle Do not expect a normal life when you give your heart to the odd gods of war. Cut up your heart and give every precious part to the dirty…
Spotter Up, Having a Frame of Reference and What it Means to Me
The Greeks My 10th grade Western Civilization teacher Mr. Archer, was one of the many big influences on my young life. He might not have known it, but I appreciated…
Lust in a Time of COVID
“How do you tell which ones are the ladyboys?” “Simple, they are the hot ones!” Sage advice or a cautionary tale…perhaps a bit of both. Either way, it was the…
Defenseless
This is an article I have been dabbling with for years, but one I hoped never to have the cause to publish. I would much sooner stick to gear reviews.…
Faces of his ghosts
Haunted When a man returns from war, he must decide if he gives names to the voices and faces of his ghosts. Perhaps we speak with the spirits of our…