The holidays can be difficult for anyone, but especially if you’ve just lost a child, a sibling, a parent. Everything can make you sad. Christmas carols, ads for toys, images of happy families, Christmas movies, all the talk about the stupid Elf… While no grieving parent would want to damper the excitement for others, this […]
That time a Camel Spider attacked me on a deployment – Memorial Day
“Ewwww!” I squealed! Please tell me those are not also in Qatar? “Oh I am sure they are!” laughed my friend Ryan, who was showing me pictures of giant spiders documented by soldiers in Iraq. Darn him for showing us those pictures. “Lemme see!” my friend Alicia piped in. We both squirmed as we looked […]
