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Progress!

Sorry about missing yesterday. It wasn’t because I was writing so furiously that I couldn’t stop to blog. The boy was sick last night so I lied down with him to help him sleep around 2200 and I crashed right…

Too Much Whining!

So, I read through a good portion of my past posts today and I’ve decided that I’ve been doing too much whining. Enough already. I’m going to throw a few words down here on the screen and then get to…

Missed a Beat

Ok. I missed a beat yesterday. I didn’t write or blog. Instead I played a game that I don’t even like that much. Path of Exile is actually a pretty fun game but only if you play with a group…

Inspiration in an Airport Line Up

So there I was exchanging pleasantries in the Honolulu Airport with a couple of fellow Canadians. I was standing between the two of them in a particularly long slow queue when the line was shuffled off to one side by…

Home From the Hill

Every time I come home, I’m reminded of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem Requiem. Here’s the excerpt I remember, the verse to be carved on a headstone. Here he lies where he long’d to be;Home is the sailor, home from…

The Will to Fight and the Will to Train

In my duties at sea, I frequently address the twin issues of the Will to Fight and the Will to Train onboard Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships. The fact is that victory will usually go to the ship or Fleet that…

Building Momentum

I’m writing again and it feels great. Thankfully I don’t have any more books and there’s no internet access so my willpower has been bolstered by the sheer lack of temptation. It has been hard to start my rewrite of…

Writing Interrupted by Two Good Books

When I’m at sea, I can usually snatch 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there for writing. Not this trip so far. It’s the time of year when we craft annual reports for everyone in the Canadian Forces plus I…