They Don’t Remember, But I Won’t Forget
September 11, 2001, started as a normal day. After twenty-five years, that is still one of the things I remember most clearly. There was nothing different…
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Stories from
the Dominion.
Fatherhood, marriage, feral children, questionable decisions, and the occasional useful thought.
A Doctor Pepper a Day… Sends You to the Infirmary.
There’s a little-known rite of passage in the world of Boy Scouts that separates the boys from the dehydrated boys hunched over a questionable latrine—it’s called…
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There are a lot of things in life that I look back on and think, “Well, that was a choice.” Chief among them is the time…
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by Austininva My father is a man of few words, packed with wisdom, and armed with a sense of humor that most people wouldn’t understand—nor survive.…
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by austininva What boy, at some time in his life, doesn’t dream of being Robin Hood? I did—on an almost daily basis—from ages 13 to 15.…
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