I’ve discovered writing to be a tremendous tool to analyze my mental health status because I’m forced to describe my actions, explain my beliefs, and Continue Reading
Electric Nights in a Lawless City
From Dec 2021 to Jun 2022, I worked in South Minneapolis, Minnesota on a high-threat armed security contract where we supported a local unarmed Continue Reading
Departed Aviators
On Saturday, December 16, 2023, three of the former Afghan Air Force pilots, now residing in the United States, were killed in a single engine plane Continue Reading
Positive Solutions
I want to send you a special 2023 year-end heartfelt message. To set the stage up front and ease my writing direction, this is a written declaration, Continue Reading
Power of Positive Thought
In 2019 I basked in the darkness and dined with my demons. They poured my favorite whiskey and my forever place at their dark dining table was set to Continue Reading
Fluid Turbulence
I live my life by the words I write.Tired face famished for a warm welcome day.I scribble and scraw to in joy our plight. Unwelcome night, Continue Reading
For Absent Friends
I must confess an uncomfortable common truth. One we refrain and refuse to refute. Written as a whisper, quiet words we shan’t dispute. We, war Continue Reading
Elements & Principles
As an author whose written work represents a real-time account of my surreal life and stress-enhanced perspectives, I’d like to pause this audacious Continue Reading
Shock & Awe
Night Stalkers landed Blackhawks then Little Birds on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) during the early “Shock and Awe” phase of the Continue Reading
Make a list of things you do for yourself
I struggle to escape the relenting pressure to fight for my life, or to take flight. The lofty notion of “doing things for myself” is an alien concept Continue Reading
“Behind the Scenes – A Taliban Feast”
by Scott “Longboard” Chapman & Russ “Grandpa” Pritchard Context makes a story come to life. The goal of this article is to apprise readers of a Continue Reading
A Taliban Feast: A “Written in Taliban” Series
by Scott Chapman, Matthew Griffin, and Russ Pritchard The last time I saw you was the first day we celebrated our 20-year Jihad victory. The year Continue Reading