So You Want To Be An Alaskan Crabber?
As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I just love to see the law of attraction in action. For those of you who are not familiar, the law of attraction is when you put your thoughts and energy into something and then you begin to attract people or circumstances about that same thought. […]
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead, Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In […]
Roy Winebaugh, U.S. Army Medic
One of the most remarkable things that I continue to encounter is the closeness of the world we live in. What is that saying? 6 degrees of separation? Somehow, in some way, we are all connected. This expression has proven itself again on my quest to find veterans who served in the remote Aleutian Islands […]
Ebb and Flow
As I sat at the beach one morning contemplating how to start this come-back post it had occurred to me that any excuse I have sounds pathetic in comparison to the sacrifices the people and families that I write about endured. Sacrifices that allow us the life of freedoms that we enjoy today. […]