“Love the sound of artillery in the morning…”

Except that I really don’t.  I’ve been down at Camp Lejeune, NC, sitting in for my active duty counterpart, and it’s been an interesting few weeks.  First, as I come near the end of my career, I realize how much I’m likely to miss all...

Book Review: “The Things They Carried”

I could spend hours in a book store, probably just in any particular section, just combing through various titles, flipping open books that interest me, putting them back, looking for something that suits my taste on the subject, perusing… kinda like surfing the...

Sep. 11, 2001 – 10 years later

As the Chief Prosecutor for Marine Corps Base Quantico, it was one of my duties to be in the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) monthly meeting.  In truth, I could have sloughed it off on someone else, but I knew how much everyone hated these meeting (myself...

Welcome to the DMV…

In honor of having spent a good deal of one Friday at the RI Division of Motor Vehicles, I have decided to offer them my ideas for 10 new slogans to better help capture the essence of the DMV customer service experience.1. “Taking Bureaucratic Intransigence to...