I write sometimes. Sometimes people read what I write, but not often.
I like to smell everything in Yankee Candle and pretend I'm traveling to far off lands. I don't like too many "nah nah's" in songs. I like my coffee black.
I recorded a solo album in 1998 with 9 original songs and a cover of "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" because I knew the chords. Hardly anyone has heard it.
I’m an avid people watcher and observer, by nature. I can sit in any public setting and just study people. I watch and analyze their movements, interactions, and idiosyncrasies. I try to guess what’s going on in their lives and make up detailed back stories for pure, personal […]
The inevitable question is, “What the hell do you do in boot camp for 7-8 weeks?” Up until this point, we hadn’t done much. We got hair cuts and new clothes, we learned how to march (sort of), and we had daily physical training. But what did we […]
It was on. As soon as we got to our barracks after being cleared for full duty, our CCs had a group of fellow CCs standing by, waiting for us. Once we walked in, we were told to get at “GQ”. “GQ”, unfortunately, had nothing to do with the magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, or its […]
I find that trying to define the decade in music for me was as frustrating as trying to figure out what to call this decade. Or as mind-numbing as describing this picture of Kanye West and Paul McCartney. Do you call it the 2000’s, or the 00’s, or […]
The first full day of basic training was like being unable to wake up from a nightmare. Actually, the whole first week was like that. It’s been said that if you can survive the first week of basic training or any type of similar military training, the odds […]
My turn to play amateur music critic… I’ll admit, I’m influenced by the behemoth that is Pitchfork.com. I cannot deny this. When I was younger, the gospel that was Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine, helped lead me to music in the 80’s and 90’s that I would have […]
I went to Navy basic training on May 12, 1994. The details and reasoning behind why I decided to join the Navy could take up an entire book if I took the time. The Reader’s Digest-condensed version is this: I was 21-years-old, married with a 1-year-old daughter, living […]
May 13th, 1994 – US Navy Recruit Training Center – Great Lakes, IL The Chief Petty Officer slowly sauntered down the freshly buffed deck of the barracks between 2 rows of Navy recruits on our first full day of basic training. He was a shade over 6 feet […]
I love technology, I really do. I’m endlessly intrigued by the possibilities technology offers to make our lives better, more fun, and more productive. Yet, with technology replacing more and more aspects of our everyday lives, sometimes we miss out on those moments that can only happen when […]
A friend and I were recently having a typical, inane discussion at work for, what I can only assume, was the 7th or 8th such digression that particular day. Truth be told, I love these digressions. They are what makes work tolerable. I can’t tell you how excited […]
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