I never once read a comic book as a kid. All I did was play sports, talk to girls and fit in. It was a happy, easy path. I’ve got sons of […]
Thank You Stan Lee
An Essay About Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
It can’t be all politics and economics. There’s just not enough blood in it. There’s more than there used to be, for sure. But not the right kind. So, from time to […]
One More Secret
If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will have a lifetime appointment to a position that will have unparalleled impact on women’s reproductive and other rights issues for the next quarter century. On Sunday, Kavanaugh, the […]
A Generation of Fear
It takes a generation of living with something before it changes the way we live. When the electrical grid was first installed and factories shifted from steam to electrical power, very little […]
There Can Be Heroes
I first saw Trevor Hoffman pitch in person during the Spring of 2001. I had just moved to San Diego on orders to a ship set to deploy that summer. Before we […]
Once and Always Friends
An old friend of mine passed away a few weeks back. I hadn’t seen him in 30 years. For a time, in grade school, he was my closest friend. We lost touch […]
Kids These Days
Today is my oldest’s birthday. I’m now the father of a teenager. While I bolt down the furniture and batten down the hatches in preparation for all I’m told that comes with […]
Appreciation for Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is the most effectively produced war movie I’ve seen in a long time. There are a few things that characterize my time in the military but the one that […]
Life Lessons from Parenting on the Autistic Spectrum
The human brain is a complex system. Over millions of years of evolution, we’ve developed a fairly narrow range of normal behavior despite all possible outcomes. There are many different ways for […]
More Perfect
*Reposted from a blog in 2015. It’s starting to dull in our minds, whether we admit it or not. The further we get from it, the less we grieve. The trauma becomes […]
