Being Present
A few weekends ago, my wife and I were at our community pool with our children. As often happens, a neighborhood child swam over and…
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The Sound of Freedom
Recently, a citizen of Coupeville, Washington wrote a letter to the Whidbey News-Times. She voiced an often-heard complaint that the jets from the nearby Naval Air…
Story Telling Made Simple
The five words that can strike fear in any father’s heart at bedtime: “Daddy, tell me a story.” At the end of a long and…
Coping with the Chaos
In a previous post, I wrote about my neglect in reading parenting books. Since then, I have atoned, but my reading list has become rather…
The Movie with a Thousand Questions
It started innocently enough. I introduced my five-year-old daughter to Star Wars Legos on the Wii. I figured that it would be a fun activity…
The Home Team
When I was six years old, my father worked with a man from Texas. His son had outgrown his Dallas Cowboys jacket, and it was…
A Letter to a Veteran
I’m the son of a son of a Sailor. My grandfather served in the Pacific during the Second World War aboard the USS Florence Nightingale…
Honor, Courage, and…. what’s that third one?
Lieutenant (junior grade) Eric Kettani got some disheartening news from the Navy. His saga is described in detail in a recent Navy Times article. Long…
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Time Away
I have been on TDY (temporary duty) this week, attending a training course in Tampa. It’s the equivalent of a business trip in the civilian…
The Case for Learning a New Language
I was in Washington, D.C. last week participating in a conference at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, a section of the National Defense University…
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