This year he's already traveled around 10,000 miles with me, including a cross country trip to Oregon and back. I'd like to treat you to a few pics of Ritter in 2024....

“Entropy is a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives. You can think of it as nature’s tax. Entropy naturally increases over time. Problems arise: your house gets messy, your garden gets...

I used to search like this in Afghanistan, every metallic hit could be something I did NOT want to find....

I feel this burden of “journalistic integrity” when I write for Mental Grenade. It’s kind of insane really. I have found much humility in researching topics for this blog. I have often set about writing...

There's so much that came before this. Years of not trying, but thinking I was. Convincing myself that life was always going to be the way it was in that moment....

The gun, the mind, life, conflict. Should I invite this anger in? Should I let it clear me out? Do I know myself enough to protect that which should be left as an anchor in...

You’re miserable, but you don’t realize you can leave and go somewhere else because it’s your choice now. ...

"There is life after a moment in time when you want to end it all."...

Is there a lingering resentment of the Japanese, post World War II? Did they attack us unprovoked?...

November 17, 2015….the day before my twenty-ninth birthday. It will forever remain in my mind as one of my most miserable and loneliest days, despite the fact that it, if my memory is accurate, was a...

November 17 Update:Some payments DID post and Stripe sent me the money before I knew it. I just logged in and processed refunds for the 15 orders that made it through. It will take a...

It’s the 10th after all and we were born in a bar, sing the Marines hymn, smoke a cigar. Leather Neck, Devil Dog, or Jarhead, if you don’t like the Corps, leave your opinion unsaid....

As a Marine, I think Nov 11 is overshadowed by the 10th but that's because in 1775, a bunch of boozers were at Tun Tavern in Philly and someone got them rowdy enough to sign...

Raise your hands: how many people really look forward to family reunions. Ok, I see that one hand in the back. ...

I could turn around but all of my effort, the toll of my shame will have been for nothing....