Ashes & Ink

Permanent Tactical Readiness (A Life of Garrison Duty)

If I explained to you everything I’ve lived through in the last six — almost [...]

GOATs Eat Criticism — Wagon Riders Spit It Out

We live in a society where it seems acceptable that those in the public eye [...]

The Relationship Trap: A Ball of Yarn

Long gone are the days of unencumbered relationships. The Norman Rockwell paintings where everything aligns [...]

You Can’t Solve Relationship Problems at the Same Consciousness Level that Created them.

Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used [...]

She Felt it First

What Didn’t Happen She realized it on a Tuesday. Not during a moment of crisis, [...]

Mutual Emotional Tethering

The Archivist and the Conductor She worked in an archive beneath a university library, three [...]

The Blame Game of False Teamwork

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”How often have we been told — and sold — that [...]

The Deferred Meaning of Ambiguous Loss

Letting go is hard. When nothing is resolved and no one moves, relationships don’t truly [...]

The Pain of Change in a Continuity-Seeking Mind

Hallelujah, God blessed the child who suffers. One of the earliest lessons I learned as [...]

The Principles of Death: Compromise

In everyday life, we rely on the fine art of compromise to keep relationships running [...]