I go back to Pensacola, Florida, that is where my Navy career started after bootcamp. Where does that name come from? Bootcamp. You earned your boots. You started with "not boots" but shoes with "leggings." "This here's a shitcan you…

The intimate nature of childhood friendship allows us to make promises we know we have no hope of keeping. But they feel urgent, important, and allow you to suspend time. There is no thing, no place, no time but the…

Promises? what are those? Trump has made a shitload of promises and has kept none of them...except the promise to destroy our government. I am too cowardly to do anything of a violent nature to rid ourselves of trump, so…

Years ago, i attempted to get through the formidable Course in Miracles, and the adventure was....well...it was many things...but there is one absolute truth i came away with: There is no truth...there is only our interpretation of it. The world…

What I have learned from stories is they matter in ways that are hard to measure Stories words matter in a way that words in response sometime doesn't feel like enough Stories are the glue Stories are the joy Stories…

There was a time – oh, so distant to consider that it’s as though she’d read about it somewhere, that it had happened to someone else—that she was still in college, and went on an adventure from her limited environment…

promises made a promise not to do something while at court a promise to stay faithful to not use arms to keep a secret blast a secret in a place it's not allowed, mock someone publicly with info promised to…

A lone ship drifted in the vast emptiness of space. The nearest objects were a cluster of asteroids, almost a hundred kilometres away. Beyond them twinkled distant stars, faint pinpricks in a velvet blanket. Nothing else was visible. At this…

Stories make up the fabric of all the days I've been alive, and likely the ones that came before that. They're sewn into the upholstery of every couch and chair I've sat or slept in, cling to the fibers of…

Stories are expected to have twists. Some rule must be broken, a rule of social etiquette in a society story, a rule of physics in a science fiction story, a rule of law in a crime story. This expectation is…