Chiron

Some disjointed thoughts on fear: Dealing with fear, terror and trepidation, all the little variations on an emotional reaction to a bad thi...

It's good to be here. The sun is shining but not blazing. Green as far as I can see and as deep as I can feel. A few good friends. Th...

(and a little whiny moralizing, too...) I will be officially off contract tomorrow.  That means I'll be available starting in September ...

He is an up-and-coming lieutenant in a foreign service.   He heard a story about something I did the week before and so he tracked me do...

One of the best things about the recent contract was the opportunity to meet people who had been exposed to many things that I have not.  ...

Balancing offense and defense is largely a sparring artifact.  At hand fighting range there is a sensitivity and a flow to sparring- the fis...

121 degrees a couple of hours ago.  Lots of doing nothing right now.  Paperwork, turning stuff in, sending stuff away. Operational areas, fo...

I have to apologize to JJ- That's US Deputy Marshall JJ to you-  he taught me something very profound once that I have since embellished...

While waiting for critiques on the first draft of book two, I've been working on the next one.  Frankly, it's driving me nuts. I...

You can get as mythical as you want, or as mundane- Hero's Journey or simply off to college.  You go somewhere, you do some stuff and th...

Just some basics, things that came up today.  You can look at them at a lot of different levels of magnification, take the principles and pl...

Messaged for a while with one of my colleagues from the old agency.  Things are not better there, worse, if anything.  He said I was missed,...

I read something recently, a short essay. It was very sincere and it was well-reasoned and it touched a lot of people.  About how violence w...

This is probably going to be my weird thought for the week. Long guns aside, I was raised on wheel guns and Colt semis.  I learned handgun o...

The drink is rotten milk (technically sour yoghurt, but that doesn't seem like a very strong distinction to me) with water, heavily salt...

Good people get the job done.  Even if they are out of the loop.  Even if they are "not important enough" to have access to critic...

Damage changes almost everything.  Not just the fact that when things start (at least, if you're the good guy) you might well be injured...

A year ago tomorrow, give or take a few hours, I was at the airport waiting to fly out of Fort Benning.  Dead tired, a little bored with wai...

I feel like a blue meanie.  Normally, I like initiative.  Normally, I think I'm pretty good at finding the common ground and getting dia...

I hate everything I write.  Not usually, just now.  That a sure sign I'm getting to the end of the piece.  It's partially the writin...