Reverse Icarus

Conventional wisdom would dictate that an inexperienced, unaccompanied, overlander not take an unproven rig — without recovery points — out onto unknown terrain

All of that might later be proven to be true, but..

I’d be remiss not to point out that, it was caution, that got me…… Read More

Shark Tanks

Thud

Well that escalated quickly.

Gone was the use of my right leg, my kicking leg.

There were three of them, all black belts, two of them (if I recall) instructors facing me.

Right out of the gate, not yet 7 seconds in, I’d eaten one hell of a roundhouse.

My leg buckled… Read More

Links

I steeled myself and refocused on the mission at hand. Asking that comparative lit major that had captivated and occupied my attention out.… Read More

Moonshots

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”… Read More

The History Box

We never quite determined if it it would function purely as an educational opportunity or a thinly veiled disciplinary tool, perhaps both.… Read More

Shakedown

Huh, that’s new… I have a history of stumbling across, long-established and more easily accessible, lessons the hard-way.… Read More

The Pint Principle

For those of us who once lacked social savoir-faire the desire to be liked, to please people, may never go away. But, if dedicated to nobler things it becomes increasingly easy to discard and disassociate from the herd.… Read More

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