Leadership The Pipeline: Switch Pressure from above may crush you, but it cannot move you. Get used to telling senior officers to stuff it.
Professional Development The Pipeline: Crash The anxiety is not all in your head. There are real reasons for it.
Navy The Pipeline: Shame Experience and the confidence it produces are great assets. But it can be overdone.
Leadership The Pipeline: Doubt New situations and old baggage raise lingering doubts. And the only way out is through.
Leadership The Pipeline: Reflection Former shipmates reflect on command responsibility and the aftermath. The crucible shapes and the specter haunts long after the watch.
Family Season's Greetings This time of year gives a flood of memory and emotion. Here, we have a voice for all of them.
Leadership Advice for a Department Head A former shipmate reaches out for advice on a challenging assignment.
Friendship Old Friends Sometimes, while trying to protect ourselves, we become our own worst enemies.
Friendship One Big Happy Very Weird Family Our isolation hurts us. So when a strange twist of fate brings us together, savor it. Then take that change in direction as a challenge because "happily ever after" is something we work for.
Citizenship Thank You for Your Service Our service members defend us and it is right to honor them. But there are times when they need defending. And we need to do it.
Citizenship We the People Have Spoken Things are broken, but not beyond repair. The People still have power and a voice.
Community Strength in Weakness The path you follow may lead back to where you started, but that place is not the same. Because neither are you.
Community Adrift, Awash, Alone When the ties that keep you moored begin to break and the warmth in your chest is from the whiskey, heavy strain leads to parting lines.
Fatherhood Fatherhood Journals One person can't hold all that love. Nor can one person shoulder all the challenges. We all have our own special needs.
Spiritual Practice Pain, Suffering, Refuge: Part 3 A path forward: wisdom, ethics, and open minds. Because right now, the world needs all the decent people it can get.
Leadership Course Corrections A story of growing pains, accountability, delegation, and sleep deprivation. Sometimes things go wrong.
Spiritual Practice Pain, Suffering, Refuge: Part 2 A story of cause and effect. Perhaps we should be mindful of the ripples we create.
Being a Man Honor Code A story of retribution, by Stuart. My school always sponsored a hayride in early October, and most everybody took the opportunity to ride an open cart in the chilly Autumn evening with a delicious cup of hot apple cider waiting for them at the end. But there were risks. School-sponsored
Being a Man Fighting Words A story of pushing back, by Felix. I grew up in a bar. My mom worked at Sonny’s, the neighborhood dive, a fine place to drink cheap beer and listen to a juke box as vintage as the clientele. After school I’d sit there waiting until the end
Family Pain, Suffering, Refuge: Intermission A side conversation, with Tristan and Jude. Continued from Pain, Suffering, Refuge: Part 1. Jude stood at the garden bed, tending peppers in the afternoon’s golden hours. By then the shadows stretched over him and the rest of the farm, a contrast to the stunning amber glow of twilight
