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A Breakthrough For This Vet On Veteran’s Day

[If you're reading this via RSS or email, you may need to click through to watch this video.] I’ve recently had some personal breakthroughs when it comes to talking about my military experience. I figure Veteran’s Day is a great day for a vet to talk about such things, so here you go. Thank you [...]

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Why I’m Scared To Get Into The Habit of Video Blogging

[If you're reading this via RSS or email, you might need to click through to watch the video.] Mark’s personal video challenge got me thinking about why I’ve been scared to get into the habit of video blogging, so I decided to share it with you – in an impromptu video. I haven’t done any [...]

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Love, in 140 Characters

[This is a video post, so you might need to click through if you're reading this via email or RSS.] We had to take Angela to the hospital yesterday, but this post isn’t about that. It’s about the love, generosity, and support we got 140 characters at a time and how much we appreciate it. [...]

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What A Perfect Move-In Day Looks Like

This is a personal post about how smoothly our move-in went.

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Quiet But Still Here

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been especially quiet for a while now. Rest assured, everything is okay. A lot of my creative mojo for June went to the Unconventional Guide that’ll be coming out next week. There were many, many days where I left everything I had on the field and walked [...]

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Ask Charlie: What’s Your Temporary Office Like?

[This post contains a short video. If you're reading via email or RSS, you might need to click through to view it.] A few people have asked me what my office set up is and how I’m settling into it. In case you missed the background story, I’m currently working from a furnished temporary apartment [...]

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Behind The Scenes: The Home Edition

If you couldn’t tell, there have been a lot of things happening for us this month. I held off on writing a bonfire this month until I knew something more definitive, but it’s the 24th today and things are still a bit uncertain. (Lesson learned: share where you actually are doing the bonfire and update [...]

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Charlie + Guitar: Birds Without Wings

So…it’s time. You’ve seen the guitars in the background for a long time. Many of you have requested that I record myself playing and I’ve been too terrified to do it. I’ve told many of you that we don’t get over fear, but instead learn to work with and through it. This is what that [...]

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Just Because I’m Not Answering Doesn’t Mean I’m Not Listening

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might have to click through to see the video.] This is a short one about the Stuck I’ve had since I haven’t been able to keep up with the comments here on the blog. I’d appreciate it if you’d watch it, but should you choose not [...]

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