As I have mentioned in previous blog entries I have a Facebook page and the result of this Facebook page has been reconnecting with people that I haven’t seen or heard from in years! One such person has been a fraternity brother of mine named Jazzy. While getting caught up I found out that Jazz [...]

Q was always looking out for us, a real brother in the truest sense of the word. It was his sense of brotherhood that no doubt caused him to feed me what I feared later would be my last meal.

Booger and I were recently knocking a few beers back at a local dive and we were reminiscing about our first jobs as teenagers. It turns out Booger worked frying chicken for the Colonel and I worked the broiler cooking meat for the King. We were both laughing about the joys of learning to cook [...]

Lerch had this first generation MAC that he had hooked to a dot-matrix printer in our room. It was Lerch who explained to me that “pre-writing” was the most important part of writing a successful piece. So he produced a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and I slid the Frisbee out from under my bunk, packed “Jake”, bubbled the water and whoooosh… the room began to fill with smoke.

Over the last few years, months, weeks, and days I have made several innocent mistakes with text messaging and sending pictures while trying to be social. Some of these mistakes have been caused by imbibing too much of the social lubricants, some have been caused by not being too technologically savvy and some have been caused by the fact that I have Barney Rubble fingers

The news has filled with Pirates and the recent capture of a merchant vessel belonging to and crewed by citizens of The United States. I have a few thought about this topic that I would like to share!
Somali Pirates recently took the vessel Maersk Alabama captive while the ship was flying a United States Flag [...]

Booger, Jack, Dan, and myself all loaded up for the long drive down to North Carolina in the early morning the day before the actual fishing trip. The sound of the popping open of beer cans as we left driveway further reinforced my excitement over the trip.

A recent decision involving my son’s lacrosse team has left me confused and disappointed about the current state of the American view of competition. The league my 11 year old plays in has decided to split his age group into two teams and play down a division rather than have a more experienced and talented [...]

This weekend marked another birthday for me and my last as man in his 30’s. As I reflect on my 30’s I realize that the past 9/10 years have been rather significant. I have shown tremendous personal growth in many areas of my life and yet managed to regress to all time lows in other [...]

I have in the past (distant and recent) demonstrated errors in judgment while having physical relations with a woman. Some of these mistakes were a direct result of being awkward in my youth and some were a direct result of not having any type of social filter.