2025 has turned out to be among the most consequential—and best—years of my life. When looking back at it now, as it approaches its end, I see it as the year that I—at last—set aside the ambiguity of my writing aspirations, and finally did the damn thing. I wrote a book, A Vantage of Darkness , without knowing what the hell I was doing. And let me tell you without sarcasm, what a joy it is do things in such a way—to learn by failing. I’m sure there’s a more elegant term for s

In every enlisted barracks across the Marine Corps, there exists a weekly holiday called Field Day, an event that consists of each Marine...

In late April of this year, I wrote an article for Veterans Life Magazine  in which I explored volunteerism as a means of recreation...

The sun had long retired by the time we pulled into the sequestered parking lot and stepped inside [insert name of local haunt] to see...