My first time on a commercial flight was July 25th, 2005. The date is easy to remember because it was the first day of my enlistment in the US Navy. From civilian to service member in less than an hour, Louisville to Chicago. At O’Hare, I followed the signs leading to the USO office where Continue reading

At eighteen years old I didn’t have much going on. Having just graduated high school by the thinnest of margins, I spent the summer of 2004 bouncing between jobs at Hollister and Kroger, folding clothes and retrieving carts with the enthusiasm of a man digging his own grave.  During that summer, Spider-man 2 was a Continue reading