In My Own Words

It has been a crazy past couple of weeks, but I’m getting back on an even keel and into the swing of things once again. For six months I followed Sis’s postings on facebook of the ups and downs Nafe went through before he finally lost the fight, and I shared those postings with my [...]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6788433n The link above will take you to a news video taken the day our local hometown hero, Cpl. Kristopher “Daniel” Greer, USMC, was injured in Afghanistan by an IED blast. He died of his injuries two days later; the other critically injured Marine who was with him lost both legs. It’s a hard video [...]

I just realized that August is halfway behind us, and I have been extremely remiss with my blog postings. It has been quite a month, but that’s no excuse. Cheatham County has lost another of her heroes. Cpl Kristopher Daniel Greer, 25, Marine Reservist and Ashland City Firefighter, lost his life to an IED blast [...]

It happens to us all. You know what I’m talking about…life’s sailing along relatively smoothly, you get complacent and take it for granted that all is right with your world, all things considered. Then out of the blue – WHAM! – your little corner of the world isn’t so smooth sailing at all. This has [...]

Sebastian Junger wrote a book titled “War,” which is basically a journal of time he spent in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley with a platoon of American Soldiers. He and Tim Hetherington made a documentary film titled “Restrepo,” which is the name of the combat outpost the Soldiers that Mr. Junger was embedded with built and named [...]

Here we are, a week into July and I haven’t written anything lately. It’s not that there isn’t anything to write about, more like I’ve been busy with this and that. Jack and I had company for the weekend; my sister Peggy and her husband Todd came down Friday, July 2 and stayed through Monday, [...]

Every once in a rare while, I get to chat with one of our troops via Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or GoogleTalk. One of our guys who is in Afghanistan was on for a bit this morning, and since I am getting ready to pack some boxes this week I asked him if there is anything [...]

Saturday afternoon, after Savanna’s 5th birthday party, Jack and I went to Sam’s Club to pick up a few things. As we always do when I’ve got money to spend on our Warriors, he got a cart for household stuff, and I got one for Soldier stuff, then it was off to the races… LOL! [...]

The “busy week” turned out quite well once all was said and done. I was up late Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights baking bread and cookies for Raise Dough for the Troops, so I was a little tired by the end of each day of the sale. The first day I made $47, the second [...]

Since my troop support account was down to 44-cents (enough to buy exactly one stamp, but who wants to write a check or swipe a debit card for $0.44?), the yard sale at the National Guard Armory in Ashland City could not have come at a better time. Lori invited me to set up a [...]