Living & Traveling Full-Time in a Fifth Wheel
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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’...

OP-EDA Guide to Entering Holy Places of the World

A Guide to Entering Holy Places of the World

Throughout the world, some of the most culturally relevant and beautiful places to visit will be the churches, temples, cathedrals, mosques, shrines and religious edifices. But you don’t have to b...