The last time I made a New Year Resolution, I was in my teens I believe. I’ve never needed to make them as I pretty much do exactly as I say I will do and that’s the end of it. Resolutions aside, in December I promised the writer in me that I’d keep my thoughts…

It becomes a small world when I think of how many people and placed in my life connect me with the U.S. space agency, NASA. From my Uncle Orville, to my Godfather Bud, as well as my friend Kay, and the fact that I live nearby the test site for the Saturn 5 rocket boosters.…

Arthur Miller divorced his first wife June 11th, 1956 after spending his six-week residency in Sutcliffe at the Pyramid Lake Guest Ranch. He married Marilyn Monroe about three weeks later. While at the ranch he watched a group of cowboys round-up some wild horses. This inspired a short story in the October 1957 edition of…

“Can’t never got anything done,” my late Grandpa used to say. Those that you think of as being lucky, are generally those willing to try, who take chances, put themselves on the line. Often people talk themselves out of an opportunity, convinced there’s little possibility of success. But worst of all are those of who…

Maybe I do have only the intelligence of a Neanderthal, after all I don’t understand the television show, “Sex in the City.” I sat with my wife and our house mate and watched two episodes and while they laughed and giggled, I missed it. The show is purportedly about four independent women living in New…

Yes, I engaged the enemy in battle and killed him. And I was close to someone who was either killed or wounded. This is not your fault. Both fear and death surrounded me time and again. In fact the Pentagon has a plan in place in case I’m killed in action. Anxiety, insomnia, and guilt…

One of my favorite military unit motto’s is, “These things we do, so others may live.” I like it because it’s not only simple and direct, but it says so much about the character of those service members who are the U.S. Air Force’s Pararescue. Time and again I see it after a disaster: Us opening our…

We were heading east on Highway 70, somewhere between the small California settlement Chilcoot and Hallelujah Junction, enjoying the scenery, when I noticed the light blue wrecker, its yellow-orange light bar flashing above its cab. It was steadily gaining on us and I was preparing to slowdown and pull to the far right to let it…

There are three things important in life. First is to be kind, The second is to be kind, And the third is to be kind. My doctor has taken a pledge, “First do no harm,” but I can one-up the profession by taking this a step beyond: First, be kind. I’ve decided to come into…

It’s a hard history to acknowledge, but my Grandpa and his son, my dad, did not talk or see each other for years.  Then suddenly, Grandpa died and it left a hole of grief in Dad’s heart afterwards. A little over 15-years later, a nearly identical situation carried itself out as I learned my dad…