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The 5 most destructive emotions: Number 3 – Greed
Definition: greed |grēd| noun intense and selfish desire for something, esp. wealth, power, or food. What comes to mind when I say that greed is a destructive emotion? Me? I think of a grossly obese man stuffing his mouth with food, with a stack ...
This new life and me
There are still times I wonder whether I can handle this new life. I used to think this kind of life is not the kind of life I wanted – the one where my entire universe was the home and my family and everything else was the icing. I look back a...
The 5 most destructive emotions: Number 2 – Lust
I have to admit, lust is not a topic I know a lot about. According to Wikipedia, the origins of the word date back to the 15th Century when the list of the 7 deadly sins requiring forgiveness was compiled. Lust does not only refer to a strong sexual ...
The 5 most destructive emotions: Number 1 – Anger
I was tooling around on the blog here, looking over the layout and the links (I removed the links – they were way at the bottom of the page and making the page too long – I’ll have to fix that later on somehow), and I came across a ...
A view from the house on post
Sights, sounds … from a day on post: BOOOOM! – explosions on the ranges. Sometimes, even being far away from the ranges, the sounds of mortar fire carry anyway. It can be a little unnerving to hear that, hear the house shake in response ...
How I stay connected with Twitter
I joined Twitter in April of 2007 for no other reason than it was the newest geek attraction on the block and I wanted in on it – just to see what it was, how it worked. I had no ideas of how I would use it, or how it might help me. I joined fo...
