My dad was delirious & continued to yell at the paramedics as they strapped him to the stretcher. When they passed through the last doorway, my dad caught hold of the door frame &...

“Have you ever killed anyone?”  has got to be one of the dumbest questions ever asked by a civilian.  It’s not malicious.  It’s ignorance....

Caffeine is a drug and I’m addicted. Am I also addicted to violence?“I felt like I couldn’t stop even though I knew I was mad about nothing.”...

I felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest like the guy in Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom....

I was excited about the prospect of deploying again.  The unit was spinning up as I checked in.  It was long nights, exhausting days; 6, sometimes seven days a week, working 18 or more hours...

Welcome to year 3 of Mental Grenade! I'm excited to be on this journey with you. More diverse content is inbound!...

We separated for about 6 months.  My wife and children went out to Colorado to live with friends, while I packed up my meager possessions I had left and PCS’d (Permanent Change of Station) to...

For the past two days we’ve observed a dead drop between two military aged males. One in a Nike hat and another in a brown shirt. Matthews made a log entry and looked back through...

"Glad we cleared this up.  Don’t worry, I won’t ever be back, so I won’t waste anymore of your time, and you won’t waste any of mine.”  To which I got up, walked out of...

...two therapists later, with no good answers, and a severe lack of trust in the mental health profession as a whole.  So how did I get here? I’m here, now what?...

But this brings me to the topic of fitness. I adamantly believe the right thing to do is be fit, the wrong thing to do is not be fit....

The diner was a mixture of updated and archaic, TV’s new, wall art old. An updated POS terminal juxtaposing the faded, chipped coffee cups. Shifting my weight from one hip to the other, the split...

They’re all full of it. The reality is that everyone’s holidays are stressful, expensive, chaotic, fattening, and triggering....

The ultimate goal should be to transform the struggle into a strength, Bruce Wayne did. ...

If you haven’t read any “Prison of the Mind” please start at the Beginning. I think it’s close to 2300. There always seems to be a fluctuation in the generators at this time of night....