Yawn. Ugh, that nap felt good. How long did I sleep? HOLY CRAP! I haven’t shared a post in over a year?! How is this possible? I don’t necessarily want to speak for my blog partner John, but for me, real life has intruded. My kids, who were just beyond the toddler stage when we […]
As I like to do each year, I thought it would be a good time to set some general training goals for the year. I like to do this as I am a “To-Do List” kind of guy. I also tend to find it interesting how I veer off course each year. As a teacher, […]
As I do each year, I like to get at least some general goals and objectives laid out for the year. However, for several reasons, this year my goals are not as “tight” as they typically would be. For one thing, as of this writing, I am still unsure how Covid will impact things. I […]
Once again this year, separate from my annual “Pay to Play” article, this is what has become another tradition: looking back at my year (see previous installments here, here, here, and here). What goals did I achieve or fail to achieve? What surprises came up along the way? 2020 was certainly a challenging year on […]
Do civilians need to know ready positions? I was inspired to write this post (and start a new series of articles) by a somewhat disjointed comment made on one of Robert’s past articles. If I understand the commenter correctly, he was admonishing us for superfluously writing about ready positions when we should be focusing on […]
Similar to recent posts by Robert, I thought I might share a brief year in review and some thoughts on the coming year. 2019 was not nearly as tough on me as it was on Robert, but it has not been without its challenges. In but one example of this, I did not make it […]
Once again this year, separate from my annual “Pay to Play” article, this is what has become another tradition: looking back at my year. What goals did I achieve or fail to achieve? What surprises came up along the way? Formal Training As I predicted in my 2019 Training Goals article, I could not maintain […]
Robert and I took an unplanned, but worthwhile and somber detour on our way out to Alliance, Ohio today… of all the stories from 9/11, Flight 93 has always resonated with me. While it cost them their lives, the passengers and crew fought back that day and altered the course of events, no doubt saving […]
As I have done each of the last several years, I thought it would be a good idea to list for our readers some of my personal training (and other) goals for the new year. I do this partially as a preview for our followers but also as a check on myself. I believe that […]
Separate from my “You Gotta Pay to Play” article for 2018, I thought I would again—as in past years—look back at some of my goals for 2018 and see how well I met them. I also thought it would be good to share some other nuggets from 2018. Formal Training I surpassed any year in […]
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