The Midnight Hour

I love collecting, shooting, and restoring military surplus rifles. As you can tell by the below picture, taken a long time ago in a state far far away, I have been enjoying this activity for several years. It is a hobby that combines a myriad of interests for me. First and […]

The title “Midnight in Iraq” doesn’t work very well if I’m not in Iraq, does it? That fact also brings to mind the question “What will I write about now? Will I write about anything?” I could always write some stories from Iraq that I never posted, and that will happen sooner or later, but […]

The website Five Minutes to Midnight (the title is not related to me or my use of the word “Midnight”), a page focusing on human rights and international affairs, recently posted an article about this blog at
http://www.11-55.org/issues2/issue.php?iss=39&art=39.7

The author, Wojciech Gryc, asked permission to use some of my flickr photos along with my captions. He then […]

Note: While a little off-topic, I wrote this during some uneventful downtime in Iraq, and thought I would post it now.

When my wife and I married and moved into our first apartment together, our cable provider was different than our separate homes out in the county. I quickly learned of a new channel I had […]