(David Byrne of the famed art band “Talking Heads.) And You May Find Yourself Living In A Shotgun Shack And You May Find Yourself In Another Part Of The World And You May Find Yourself Behind The Wheel Of A Large Automobile And You May Find Yourself In A Beautiful House, With A Beautiful Wife […]

(Russian ground forces redeploy near Iran’s Northern Border.)   The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, said the Chinese wise man.   Today I can feel the results of those first few tentative movements toward a distant horizon. Interest flickered as I read of the Russian troop build-up on their border […]

  (Persistence of Memory- Salvador Dali.) So, the last thing I remember was looking at the Ultrasound of the femoral sponge in my left leg. The sun out the window of the triage bay was high. Goofing with the anesthesia team was fun, I suppose, if you like science projects being carried out on the […]

Commander Lisa personally wheeled me down from Walter Reed’s Ward 5C to the post-op recovery room as part of the final insertion into The Process. It was an honor. The silver band with the sanscrit inscription had been bent off my wrist for the first time since it went on in Delhi a decade ago. […]

  (Wounded Warriors. Photo Washington Post). On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In […]

I have been plotting how to get out of bed this morning since about three. I had to get up and pee, of court, a big deal, and that is the toughest part of the drill. I probably came home too soon, but dammit, I wasn’t ready to have surgery, not the day it went […]

(Thanks to Dr. Anderson, I get to keep use of mine. This one is for a Wounded Warrior who wants a competitive alternative to his utility/walking prosthetic.)   I can hear the merriment down at poolside- for the first time in a decade, the pool opened without without a plunge by yours truly.   “Marco!” […]

(US Airways Boeing 767ER en route the Continental United States.) The warm air mass seems to have prevailed against the chill wind from the North: the rain has been banished but now we feel- dare I say it? Summery? It is muggy in the bright sun. Time for the pool am considering the flight next […]

(Liz-S and Old Jim at the Amen Corner. Liz-S is in white and Jim is not commenting on what happened in Vegas. Photo Socotra.)   I stopped by Willow on the way home- duh, you know? The crew was reassembled. I can’t tell you what Old Jim and Mary did in Vegas- I wouldn’t ask […]

(USS Vincennes (CG-49) launches an SM-1 guided missile on sea trials. She was scrapped in 2006. Photo MSHennessee.)   They would have been playing Bee Gees tunes at La Belle, the nightclub in the former West Berlin that night in 1986. A lot of troopers from the Berlin Brigade were in the crowd, America’s overt […]