While talking to my wife (aka: Dorothy) yesterday, I finally verbalized some final revelations regarding this deployment and since I wrote to you for months, I wanted to come back here for a few final words...for real this time! I'm nearly 3 months home, believe it or not. 83 days to be precise. It's amazing … Continue reading Closure… Again.

Good Friday afternoon, friends. Today truly marked the end of my deployment unexpectedly and I felt compelled to write one last time and sum up the past 46 days since I hugged my girls for the first time in a very long time. I was home for 24hrs before flying to Colorado for Christmas for … Continue reading 46 Days Home and Closure

Good morning, friends, from Colorado Springs. I have decided to keep writing, at least for a bit. However, it will not be here but rather on my long-standing blog that I began a very long time ago but has been sitting idle. You can find it here and it has the same ability to subscribe, … Continue reading But wait, there’s more…

I have been processing how I would present a summation of this deployment to someone who asks. Depending on the day, the answer is quite likely different. What grounds me, though, is Scripture. Yesterday was a classic example of that if you go back and read my thoughts on 2 Timothy. I feel that through … Continue reading Parting Thoughts

One goal was in my head when I woke up: get to the base pronto and find a way to defeat technology and sign my discharge paperwork...aka: DD-214. No fitness, no breakfast...just a shower, shave and off I went. When I showed up, I expected an empty office space but instead, there was a fresh … Continue reading Day 240

Another lazy morning today as church at my brother's church wasn't until 11am. Espresso brewed then got a few days worth of readings done before Bekah made breakfast for me again...a repeat of yesterday. SO good! While watching my home church's service online at 8:15am, I brewed another cup of coffee then noticed my mug. … Continue reading Day 239

This deployment just keeps getting more NOT normal. But what exactly IS normal about 2020?! Should I expect my deployment to be immune to a global pandemic? Ironically, it felt like it was while I was actually at the desk doing the job. However, everything leading to that point and everything since I left country … Continue reading Day 238

What a day! I got up before the sun today with the goal to get in my parking lot workout and get on the road for North Carolina. The workout went well and things got off on the right foot. Then a cascade of misfortunes kept happening and honestly, they're too exhausting to go through. … Continue reading Day 237

I had an appointment to review my discharge paperwork, aka: DD-214, first thing today so alarm at 6 and to the base by 8:15am. Today was a rest day and after that LONG 57min Hero workout I did on Sunday, I was determined to take it today. My neck and shoulders still hadn't fully recovered … Continue reading Day 236

I don't think I got out of bed until 7:30am today...on purpose. No reason to get the day moving any earlier than absolutely necessary. The weather was cruddy again and I had nowhere to be. After reviewing today's prescribed workout and realized I had nothing that I needed to hardly even resemble it, I resolved … Continue reading Day 235