Military

A Short Interview With the San Francisco City College Campus Magazine

A student journalist approached me via email to answer a few questions for an article she’s writing for the San Francisco City College campus magazine. She came up with some really great questions and I thought I would repost them here (with my answers, of course) for all to see.
She’s writing an article about [...]

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The Aftermath of War: In Their Own Words

There’s an interesting play being put on over in Berkeley, California, that’s being described as “a performance collage of the words of American soldiers in or returned from Iraq and the families of some of the war’s casualties.”, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bryan Catherman did an excellent write up of the play here. [...]

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An Unlucky Experience Made Me A Lucky Writer…Again

There’s some really great things happening with the book sponsored by Gary Trueau of Doonesbury which features such amazing writers as yours truly.
What kind of a writer would I be if I didn’t publicize my work?

Ego aside, it’s actually full of some AMAZING stories that have harpooned tender and heartfelt emotions inside of me. [...]

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Oh oh oh! I know that sand!

The place my unit and I were dumped off at in Iraq was on the Daily Show!!

(Thanks for the text about this, Skitz! I tracked the video down like a blood thirsty wildebeest.)
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Military to Civilian Translation

Yesterday I had a job interview for a position at a distribution center. Nothing about it relates to my degree in English. This sort of technicality doesn’t concern most graduates anyway. I found myself incredibly nervous as I hadn’t had an interview since the last traditional job I held (I interviewed for [...]

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