This dawned on me a few years ago when our eldest, Carson, was heading to a lacrosse summer camp at the Naval Academy when we lived in Maryland. He wanted to be a better lacrosse player and wanted to sign up for this week-long camp at my alma-mater. I remembered when I was a Midshipman there that they would have… Read More
What Was Your First Job?
What was your first job? Mine involved uniforms, ships, and airplanes…and it wasn’t by choice. Let me explain. When I was 16 and in high school in the Philippines, I wanted to have some spending money while I hung out with my friends. We had just moved to the Philippines after my dad retired from the Navy in Japan, and… Read More
Is this some sort of drill?
Wikipedia entry of the Washington Navy Yard shooting:Â Â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting It started out as a normal Monday morning. I had just started at this new job in the Washington Navy Yard in Washington DC about a month prior and I was getting settled into the new environment. I had been commuting from my home about an hour and a half away each… Read More
A “Normal” Childhood – Part 1
Is it abuse if you don’t know what non-abuse is? I had a pretty normal childhood. I mean every kid had a dad who was gone a lot (he was in the Navy), and a mom who burned their only child with a cigarette and chased them around a 9th floor condo with a butcher knife, right? What? You mean… Read More
On Integrity
June 1, 2018 Integrity – Doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do Integrity is weird. I mean, do you teach it to someone, or are people born with it? Or is it just something that is learned? I don’t know the answer and I don’t know if there even is an answer. All I can tell… Read More