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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
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“Come back, Maeve”
“For my 18th birthday I will go skydiving, and my wish is that my loving, faithful Dad would jump with me.” So that’s how it started. This is about a month ago. I tried ignoring the subject for as long as possible but the little tyke –strike that, my mistake– the young lady was intent… Read more
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Research
Taking on writing is a rougher task than I expected. Sure, I knew the writing would be a tough slog, but what compounds it is that for each bit of writing there’s a ton of research. Like a boxer getting ready for a fight. HOWEVER the research can be fascinating whether you’re trying to learn… Read more
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Balikatan
So the point of the last month has been to support the Marine Corps in one of their exercises. This one has been held in the Philippines, on the island of Luzon, in a place called Crow Valley. Here’s a picture of the valley up above. Interestingly, the valley has changed over time. … Read more
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Okinawa
It’s been a year and a half since the last post and there are some reasons for that, the most important being it really wasn’t okay to update much about our hospital in Kandahar: I couldn’t talk about the base or the missions or even daily life without producing info that could give our enemies insight or ideas (and… Read more
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Easter in Kandahar
Dear Family and friends, Greetings from Kandahar Air Field! I know it’s been a few months since my last posting, and I apologize for that. There has been a reason for the radio silence which in short is that the rules regarding internet and blogging, once in the country, are different. It’s important for “OPSEC”… Read more
