Strong Opinions

For the most part, I am reading purely for pleasure; and I find I want to explore time periods. One of those times periods has a lot to do with wondering what the impact of the world around had on my childhood and thus, the woman I’ve grown to be. I was born in 74, […]

Life has been pretty interesting lately. My love and I have gone on a pretty significant life changing journey over the past year and things have been pretty satisfying. A large part of this journey has been dealing with things that were holding us back individually – fears, angers, hurts, all that. You know what […]

I joined the military in 1992, celebrated my 18th birthday in boot camp, my 21st birthday in a bar in the Caribbean (with a bunch of drunk sailors), and then only one after that on the dry land of the United States, all others were just another day while floating in the middle of the […]

Let me preface this with: I know very little about Nicki Minaj, other than if I was asked about the artists that dress the most outlandish, I’d name her and Lady Gaga; and I’d do so with the respect of understanding they know how to stand out from the rest. Honestly, I couldn’t tell you […]

The House has passed a large amount of Veterans bills – and there should still be more coming. You can find a decent listing of those bills at the link below. House passes flurry of veterans bills, bigger deal could be looming Lawmakers could be headed toward a veterans omnibus bill covering a host of […]

Yup! I said it. I made a distinction that we are veterans just like the guys, except for our reproductive and sexual organs. :sigh: Its a conundrum. On the one hand, we want services specific to us, on the other we don’t want to be treated differently than men veterans. Maybe one day I’ll find […]

Happy first week of 2016! This is the time when most of us are trying to figure out what we want the new year to “be about”. We set resolutions and pick life themes, hoping beyond hope, for the sake of our self-images and self-worth, that we are able to accomplish whatever we’ve chosen to […]

Below is verbatim post on myhealth.va.gov on how to deal with the reality the holiday season. This post was worth sharing just to make sure the links were available. While I recognize some have issues with the VA (and I completely understand these issues), I do believe if you are in crisis, these links are […]

I can’t help but wonder if when John the Baptist started preaching and dunking people in the water, and then some guy named Jesus started walking through the country being kind to the down-trodden, were they seen as cult-leaders (whatever the ancient equivalent term may have been)? Both had followers that believed whole-heartedly in things […]

The UN has vowed to wipe out poverty. Its a big goal, and I’m not really sure if its even viable. But while looking at some research on poverty this past week, I ran across the webpage below from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The page highlights a report they have […]

At the beginning of this week, I had the opportunity to go to New York and visit the Scientific Computing Department at Mount Sinai Medical School. The experience was incredible. For those of you that don’t know, Mount Sinai is world renowned for the research that is done at the various labs, institutes and centers. […]

Bernie Sanders is the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever speak at Liberty University’s weekly convocations. And if you haven’t listened to the speech, you really should . There are two reasons to watch this full speech, one being that the majority of speeches we are seeing in full are the Donald and Hillary and […]