American BBQ Review
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American BBQ Review

Barbecue is art and like all great art, debates rage around BBQ’s many complexities.

OP-EDLiving & Traveling Full-Time in a Fifth Wheel

Living & Traveling Full-Time in a Fifth Wheel

This past Father’s Day, my family and I decided to leave everyone and everything we’ve known for the last few years, trade in our twenty-four-hundred square foot house and move into a thirty-four-...

OP-EDEncouragement For Tough Guys, From A Tough Guy

Encouragement For Tough Guys, From A Tough Guy

This morning I want to throw around a couple "hard to swallow pills". The military doesn't have a monopoly on sacrifice, and being a tough guy doesn't mean you don't struggle with depression. Ther...

OP-EDDying More Deaths Than One
OP-EDThe Spy Who Loved Us - An Intelligence Operative's Rules For Survival

The Spy Who Loved Us - An Intelligence Operative's Rules For Survival

I’m part of that OG cohort of young recruits who were in DC on 9/11. My entry into the Intelligence Community was a fire drill; a sort of shell-shocked mix of earnest duty and eat-your-face-off ra...

INTERESTING READS5 Books To Keep Your Mind As Trained As Your Body

5 Books To Keep Your Mind As Trained As Your Body

As the self-appointed SOFLETE literary critic and grouchy librarian, I have harangued you all to read David Joy and Larry Brown’s books on multiple occasions. You should read David Joy because he’...