Riding the Rails

By | November 19, 2025

[November 19, 2025] David and I were 16 when he decided to hop onto a train and head out West; to ride the rails. We had been infected by the cowboy spirit, “Head West, young man, head West.” Just before our junior year in high school, we were exploring the abandoned towns that lay far out into the… Read More »

Van Camping: the Adventure

By | November 15, 2025

[November 15, 2025]  I’m of the belief that all humans crave adventure.  I have no way of proving that, but looking at the history of mankind, we can see where this “adventure spirit” to explore and find new pathways into the unknown was driven by those most infected with the call for adventure.  Today, I’m writing about Van… Read More »

We Hire and Admit Morons

By | November 10, 2025

[November 10, 2025] In a brutally honest email sent to the “Penn community” declared that the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education is a “dogshit and elitist institution” and that they “hire and admit morons.”  As to be expected in damage control, Penn administrators immediately labeled the email as fraudulent. I got a laugh out of it.… Read More »

The 3 Failures of Feminism: Camilla Paglia

By | November 3, 2025

[November 3, 2025]  Since the late 1990s, feminist Dr. Camilla Paglia has been one of the leading critics of feminism.  She sees 3 main failures of modern feminism.  This assertion that Paglia is critical of “modern” feminism stems from her outright rejection  of the victim/oppressor narrative that dominates much of America’s feminist movement. Here are Camilia Paglia’s critique… Read More »

The Beginning: with Veterans

By | October 11, 2025

[October 11, 2025] In my first book, “Our Longest Year in Iraq,” I made an effort to show how I developed to a point where I would achieve something important in my life. The discovery was my connection to combat Veterans and how they played an outsized role in my upbringing. ‘The Beginning’ is trying to lay this… Read More »