Recovery only works…

I am by no means an expert in recovery, but is anyone truly? After yesterday’s blog, I felt a little bit more like an ass than I usually do. Then I thought about it and decided that I was essentially correct. I will not say that traditional recovery programs don’t have that respectable goal of …

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The castle has a roof, and no one has a clue…

  Well, that was pleasant/unpleasant. The castle needed a new roof, and it is fixed and makes the place look at least 500 years younger (it has made it less drafty, which needs to be fixed).  Memorial Day here was soggy and uneventful, even the hospital was quiet with a low census.  It is one …

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Sometimes you are where you are…

  “In a world full of assholes, you don’t have to compete,” I was told by my First Sergeant when I took over a tank section.  “You need to meet people where they are and address your response in that place and that moment.” We oft think of sergeants and senior sergeants (a First Sergeant …

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