What is Heaven?
As I write this, not that long ago a close friend of mine passed away. As part of everything that
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Master Your Control
Long time readers know that while I’m not much on structured religion, I am big on spirituality, and as such
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Be Curious, Not Judgmental
Way back in the latter half of 2001, I had someone ask me this: “If you got on a plane
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The One Chewing Gum and Smiling
A few years back, almost 30 now I guess, I was a firearms instructor and was at the range with
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Paralleling The Edge
Past experience has shown that all of us have times in our life where we feel like we’re “close to
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This Interesting Dream
I have always loved dreaming. No, not daydreaming, although I’ve done my fair share of that (and then some); I’ve
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Limiting vs. Empowering Yourself
A very wise man once said, although I argued with him about it for quite some time, “Everything is a
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Becoming Elderly
Something a lot of my friends have heard me repeatedly say is, “We don’t stop playing because we get old;
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Red Pill vs. Blue Pill Choices
Full disclosure: When this image popped up in my social media feed, I was only four months away from being
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The Future of Prejudice?
The year is 3023. Earth is a different planet than it was at the beginning of the 21st century. Fossil
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Are Your Virtues Balanced?
Throughout our childhood we are taught what’s good and what’s bad, or at least we’re taught what our parents teach
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Defend Yourself
Three teenagers attack an art teacher and beat her to the ground on video… A group of teenage girls trap
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Teaching Our Children to be Victims?
Author’s Note: This article was originally published in June of 2008. There are references in it to ‘recent events’ and
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Act Your Age
Fair warning: This is going to be a short rant about assumptions people make pertaining to age. Just recently I
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Our Warrior Culture
Author’s Note: Republished almost 16 years after I originally wrote it. Still just as applicable today as it was then.
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Reliance and Self-Reliance
This entry is a combination of an updated version of two blogs I wrote about 15 years ago. They have
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Getting Hit Hard – And Not Staying Down
“It’s not how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and still keep moving forward.” Sylvester Stallone
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The Value of Contact Sports
Throughout the course of my law enforcement career it has constantly caught my attention how many of my fellow officers
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Teaching People To Be Helpless
Most recently I had a conversation with a gentleman who is a Marine, a veteran police psychologist and an avid
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Fear & Defense
Not long ago I was on a long drive and as the miles passed, I began to ponder fear, our
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