Jul 01
My Father Takes The Witness Stand. The reason I wanted my dad at the trial was because he was really my best chance. A chance at letting the court get to know the man behind the mess I had created for myself. I thought he would be able to let the people deciding my fate, …
Jun 03
Arraignment On 5 DEC 89 I was taken to the Ft. Polk court house to have my arraignment hearing. Colonel Grainger was the Judge assigned to my trial. During the arraignment he went over my trial rights. He knew that I had gone AWOL the second time and that it caused my court-martial to be …
Feb 05
Dangerous Parenting Techniques As a parent, you may have some parenting techniques that you love to share with others. This post is the opposite of that. This is what not to do, based on learned experience and having some mishaps along the way. Disclaimer: All of these stunts were performed by a parent …
Jan 21
I Decided To Grow My Hair Out On the day after my beautiful wife and I exchanged our vows, I decided to grow out my hair. So I didn’t get a haircut for 2 years. You can imagine the process. At first the hair began to creep down to the top of my ears. Then …
Jan 07
Walk to School and Back Adventures In 1979 my family lived in base housing at Shaw AFB South Carolina. I was about 9 and my brother was about 8. The school we went to was pretty close to where we lived. So we walked to school and back each day together. There are many fond …
Dec 10
Rambo Knife Plus Teen Boy Equals ER When I turned 13, I proposed a purchase to my mom and dad. I know that it was probably something that they had been waiting their whole lives to hear. I exclaimed with great enthusiasm “I want a Rambo knife!” Now I know what you’re thinking, “He’s going …
Nov 26
Trailer Life At the age of 3.5, my dad was reassigned with the Air Force. We moved from the country of England to a Red Neck area, of back woods Sumter, South Carolina. My parents did not have a lot of money and so they bought a trailer. You know, a house that could be pimped out …
Nov 19
We have three daughters: 13, 11 & 3. Everyone says “Just wait!” in regards to the Estrogen Armageddon that we are supposed to experience during their adolescence. “Oh, you have all girls?” they say, “Boys are easier…” Great, thanks! So far with our girls we have had relatively no problems. Our daughters are awesome! We …
Oct 08
Does Electric Shock Cure Bed Wetting? In my dream is a running stream that slips over and around smooth stones. As it travels along it grows to river size and picks up speed and crashes in to larger sharper rocks. Large white caps appear as the water churns turbulently. At this point, it’s course can …
Oct 02
Growing up I wanted to be a soldier. It is the only thing I wanted to be, besides Indiana Jones. In a toss up between Indiana Jones and Rambo, the latter won out in my mind as the job of choice. I had some ancestors fight for the Union in the Civil War. One of …
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