Welcome!

My wife and I, waiting on the train in New York City.

Fun Facts:

  • I was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and Kuwait in 2007
  • I can drive a 5 ton tractor-trailer
  • I fired a MK-19 automatic grenade launcher, .50 cal machine gun, and have a Silver German Marksmanship Badge
  • I’ve lived in 7 countries, one of which no longer exists, and literally walked where Jesus walked

Find more information about me on the About page or by browsing the social media sites listed below.

Quotes I Like:

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Gautama Buddha

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

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Looking down at the water while riding the Staten Island Ferry. 2013. Pasir Ris, #Singapore. May, 2009. Tampines was better. Rainy day in Little Ferry, NJ. Life milestone: used an air fryer for the first time. The potatoes came out pretty good. A plastic trash chandelier in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place in Lower #Manhattan, #NYC. 2012. Working out in #Iraq. 2003. We made do with what was laying around. Having a little fun with my wife’s new folding bike. The little wheels made me think it wouldn’t be that great but it rides pretty good. Crown Coat Front Co. Inc., 105 E. 16th St. between Irving Place and Union Square. Photo taken 2011. The business was in operation from 1947 to approx. 1957. St. Patrick’s #Church in Bay Ridge, #Brooklyn.