Change It! (The Shoe Theory)
I don’t know about you but I can get frustrated when things don’t go the way I want or when people don’t meet my expectations. During a “whine” session about…
Prioritize Your Care
“DAD! He’s looking at me!” “DAD! She’s in my space!” “DAD! He ate the last cookie!” Okay, the last one was me. I ate the last cookie. I learned early…
The World Class Butthole
I was coming up on my first annual performance evaluation as an officer in the Navy and, as the day approached for my debrief, I wasn’t really worried because I…
Teaching Pigs To Sing
When the message came in, I knew it was trouble. We had been able to maintain our numbers for a good while but this was going to be a big…
Father Knows Best
I had hit a brick wall and didn’t know what to do. As a military person, I had never dealt with unions before. We had a ton of changes to…
The Encouragement Zone
Why is it there are 300 million people in the United States (and it seems like we’re all connected electronically) but, yet, the number of people that say they have…
Have Fun…But Don’t Get an STD!
How Faith didn’t see Ray’s six foot, 260 pound frame packed under her desk I’ll never know. It had been a long 3 months. The five of us in our…
Problem Gas
He called an emergency meeting of the Department Heads. We sat there, looking at each other, wondering why the Captain had called the meeting. As he came in, we all…
Meeting Bitch!?
The only thing I dislike more than other people’s drama is other people’s meetings. Let’s face it, most meetings are dull, uneventful, and full of narcoleptic inducing briefings. I like…