I Bought a Boat… (2018)

A full email, sure, I can do that—life of a staff officer. Though if you are going to be a staff officer; my job is one of the best. So, it has been a long time. Not since the last set of words passed via the internet, but rather since substance. In reality, it has been …

From work will set me free, to the truth will set you free.

I was afraid. More afraid, in retrospect, than I had been in some time. She was angry and I had no idea what would come next. She had been quiet for a few hours, in and of itself not a bad thing; but she had opened a bottle of wine. I knew then there would …

Smile

I used to tell her “smile, its ok.” Sometimes I would shorten the command to just one word “smile.” I never understood her displeasure with this form of motivation. I couldn’t make the leap she tried to share with me that it was the epitome of my male privilege to tell her that she should …