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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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Full disclosure: When this image popped up in my social media feed, I was only four months away from being…
Continue ReadingThis 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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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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The Difference Between Criticism & Critique
Criticism:1. the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.2. the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding.3.…
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Celebrating Independence on the Fourth of July
As we, the whole nation, celebrate our Independence, but looking back on the past few months of challenges our nation…
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Living is Done on Your Feet
As I sit to write this it’s the early part of May 2020. For the past few months the news…
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Managing & Passing Time in the COVID-19 Era
To steal a word that so many politicians are already overusing: We’re living in unprecedented times. As this is written,…
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Managing COVID-19 Restriction Anxiety
Folks, welcome to another morning in America. It’s Sunday morning, roughly 10am while I write this. In a lot of…
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Logic and Wisdom
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Star Trek fan. Because of a quirk of circumstance, it’s actually documented that…
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Push Your Limits for Improvement
Not long ago I made a list of the new projects I was starting for 2020. As I reviewed, edited,…
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Don’t Regret; Cherish
About 20 minutes ago, as I write this, I posted the following on Facebook and wanted to expand on it:…
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