Returning to college as a 42-year-old military veteran, I expected a fresh start—a chance to build a new career and apply my years of real-world experience to a field I was genuinely interested in. But the excitement quickly faded, replaced by a frustrating reality that left me questioning the value…
Emptiness sits beside me, a shadow on the passenger seat, as I drive my boys to safety, through days that stretch too long, and nights that come too soon. She still wears the mask, still plays the role, pulling at strings that unravel me, until there’s nothing left to tie,…
There was a man who traveled in time.He wandered back and forth between past and present, future.Time curled and bent, each round a trap which he was unable to escape.He knew the byways, the tricks to sidestep the pitfalls,But for some unknown reason, he still kept stumbling headlong into them….
I walk through shadows of days I can’t rewrite, Faces of the past etched in dim, distant light. The world spins faster, the colors all blur, Yet here I stand, steady, despite how things stir. I’ve worn a mask, heavy with borrowed pride, Chasing the ghost of the man I…
There are days when I can still hear the hum of the ship, smell the salt in the air, and feel the camaraderie that ran deeper than anything I’d known before or since. I miss the Navy—not every aspect, of course. There was plenty of frustration, bureaucracy, and “bullshit” that…
