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From Reset to Reintegration

In the last part of this story, I shared the lead-up to the reset. In case you haven’t been following, the reset occurred because Angela (my wife) developed acute and debilitating anxiety, OCD, and depression as a result of a combination of medication and several years’ worth of unresolved grief and stress. If you have [...]

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The Lead-up to the Reset

Yesterday I shared our experience with having to reset Angela and coming out of a different kind of darkness. This continues that story and shows more clearly how we got there. We tend to have a myopic view of our lives, only focusing on the few months before the present we’re in and a few [...]

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Out of a Different Kind of Darkness

I’m going to share a hard story with you about what’s been going on behind the scenes. It’s a story of struggle, perservance, and slow triumph and it’s still in-progress. I’m breaking it into parts both for readability and so that I’ll start sharing it sooner rather than later. On September 30th, 2011, our world [...]

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Remembering Iraq – A Video Walk Through

[I was originally just going to post the pictures, but I thought I'd share them in a video with me talking about them. I'm keeping the photos up since video isn't everyone's thing.] I saw Wolf Blitzer reminiscing on the Iraq War last week. The Iraq war officially ended on December 15th, 2011. As he [...]

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The Deeper Level of My Mission

I haven’t been completely transparent with you about what I’m up to – thus far, you’ve only seen pieces of what I’ve been working on all these years. Even my last attempt at this in “What I’m Here to Do” muted the deeper level of my journey. The other day, Pam and I were talking [...]

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Some Gave All – All Gave Some

I was doing some planning last month and completely overlooked Memorial Day. I planned some events for the day only to be reminded that it was a national holiday. It wasn’t too long ago that Memorial Day was more than a three day weekend. This is the first year I feel “away” from my military [...]

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My Second Run At Being A Captain

I found myself missing being in the Army last week. When Angela found out about it, she didn’t find herself missing us being in the Army, so a constructive and transformative conversation followed. To explain what I was missing, though, I’ll have to give you some background. My last two positions in the Army were [...]

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What I Believe

I believe … that we should measure our worth in lives changed rather than dollars made. we each have something to contribute to the world and it’s our life’s work to find the best ways to do it. there’s more than enough for everyone if we use our imagination to share rather than to hoard. [...]

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What I’m Here To Do

The air on the bus was so thick with tension and fear you could hardly see through it. We had just spent our last night out as civilians. The Academy had pulled us all together and brought us to a hotel just outside of Newark where we had a social cocktail and meet & greet. [...]

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