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Daily Prompt 6/9/23
What a weird question! But it intrigued me. I’m not even sure what the oldest thing is that I own and still use daily. I have some seriously old shoes but I wear them rarely. I have slowly added a bunch of clothes since I retired from the military almost two and half years ago,…
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Daily Prompt 6/8/23
I didn’t answer this question right away because I thought I’d answered it awhile back. I didn’t and I was thinking of a different prompt. So my tagline would be: Calm in chaos, scrambled in calmness. It’s crazy how when the shit hits the fan, I am calm inside and ready to handle the pressure.…
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Daily Prompt 6/6/23
I am passionate about my family, friends, animals, helping people, and education at all levels. I think most people are passionate about their family, friends, and people close to them. Same with animals, particularly pets. And I am guessing helping people is another common passion. I also don’t think education is too original either, but…
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College Reunion
My college reunion was this past weekend. I didn’t go. I did attend my wife’s last year. But there’s so much I can’t seem to get over with my class. There’s people I can’t stand and people that I’m sure can’t stand me. I was so different back then, so unhealed. I was with the…
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Stop holding it all in
(Mental note to self-it does not help you to hold in your emotions. You know this. You have learned this lesson repeatedly over the last three or so years. Just stop already!) I woke up yesterday and right away I knew I wasn’t feeling like myself. Something was off. I was cranky but for no…
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Daily Prompt 5/31/23
This is a great question because I AM going to change my name. I am changing it to Zander after a very lengthy audition process over the past year and a half. I tried out some other names in my head but nothing really stuck. As a kid I always loved Sebastian, Simon, and Timothy…
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Myers-Briggs, 16 personalities, whatever
So I’ve taken this test like 100 times and every single time I get a different personality type that doesn’t actually fit very well. A friend shared results on social media and I took the test a few days ago and got yet another unfitting result. Then my wife said she took it and so…
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May 30, 2007
Sangin, Helmand province, near the Kajaki Dam…one Chinook helicopter is shot down, supposedly by multiple rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). I was there, 30K+ feet above it all. We moved to assist the recovery operations. The helicopter had been on fire when it crashed so there were definitely no survivors. Then there was an ambush on the…
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Unpopular Opinion
I saw Dear Evan Hansen last Saturday. I knew it won a bunch of Tony Awards. I knew it was well loved and very popular. And I did not like it. I loved parts of it, I must admit. There were some great songs. The acting was really good but the characters weren’t as developed…