Die Living

You Want To Be A Rockstar? Get Used To Feeling Like A Roadie

Recently, I wrote about resilience as a tool to combat failure. Resilience can be difficult to implement, but that does not imply that it is difficult to comprehend. By the time we are hitting roc...

No Holiday in Cambodia for These Giant Rats

Roughly the size of a domestic house cat, the African giant pouch rat has far superior olfactory receptors, making them ideal for sniffing out buried land mines and TNT.  A few factors come into ...

Is Quitting Genetic Or Can You Control Your Destiny?

“Don’t quit, don’t quit, don’t quit” the phrase is repeated in the heads of some athletes only to result in them giving up physically, mentally or both. Yet there are large groups of athletes who...

5 Temporary Duty Station Watering Holes That Won't Make You Consider Penicillin The Next Morning

Hopefully, you're past the phase where when you go TDY you run to the PX and spend all of your per diem on Silver Bullets, Red Bull and ramen. The next stage, of course, is craft beers outside the ...

Running In Pursuit Of Being A Better Man

Life has taught me that there are always those members of a population that can’t follow simple rules. Here’s where our extra thirty pounds, five inches, and fifty percent more physical strength c...