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  • Citizen Surgeon

    Citizen-Surgeon takes readers into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining U.S. Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] U.S. Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and… Read more

  • Jack’s Rogues

    ROGUES AND PRODIGIES https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155356/4134089-rogues-and-prodigies-produced-by-speaks-volumes-productions-www-speaksvolumes-biz?play=true God (Adonai) and the Devil (Samael) have worked together for billions of years creating Nature; and for the last few hundred million with intent to create a species capable of carrying their work forward into the otherwise sterile solar system and galaxy. But recently, say for ten or fifteen thousand years,… Read more

  • The End

    The End

    U.S. Marine Captain Francis Xavier O’Rourke has a big problem: Afghanistan, gunfire, and a helicopter crash have left him burnt, broken, and in pieces. Alas, while hospitalized and in critical condition he meets his end, and in a swirling blaze of brilliance transports into the afterlife. But darling it is not the end; it is not… Read more

  • The Viet Nam War- Worth It?

    The Viet Nam War- Worth It?

    I suppose it’s because it was the backdrop of my youth, born in 1967, that the war was a tunnel from which I exited. Mom, Dad, and my six older brothers and sisters were, of course, more close to it than I. Dad served in Korea; not in Viet Nam. But my oldest brothers had… Read more

  • Book Review: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

    It’s been ages since I’ve posted, and that’s for a variety of reasons. One, I had nothing to say. This, my friends, is definitely worth your time: Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt is a new (~25 yrs ago) book that absolutely blows your mind with its magnificence. The genius of it is in how it… Read more

  • La Roma Eterna

    It’s an incredible city.  Flying back home from it yesterday, landing at O’Hare airport, I looked at our beloved Chicago –flat, expansive, with Lake Michigan and the gleaming downtown beneath us– and it struck me how unbelievably different the two cities are. Our college, Loyola University of Chicago, has a campus in Rome named, appropriately… Read more