On the night of 23 February 2001, I awoke with a dagger to my throat. A very long, very sharp…
ARMY Meal Plans & Recipes I’ve decided to start sharing healthy, easy-to-make meal plan for busy ARMYs who love to…
Ah, yes. Every few years or so, a person comes along to hate on fanfiction as if their opinion on…
Dispelling misconceptions about Korean Military Service Recently, in our corner of the Twitter-verse, we lit up over an interviewer asking…
Movies, TV, and books tend to focus on the ‘falling in love’ part of a relationship because, as two people…
Hello, ARMY! I hope everyone is well-rested and taking good care of yourselves. Today I’m going to write a little…
Back in January, I made a resolution to regularly post updates about returning to therapy. For reasons I’m about to…
Losing my Mom has been like an earthquake. Violent and sudden, it shook the earth late at night and by…
A fixture in the firmament of the Gravis and Die families has gone out: Pamela June Gravis died suddenly Monday,…
Sitting here, January 10, wrapped in a heated blanket watching our new cats stalk birds on the patio, I’m reflecting…
What the heck even was 2025? A bit of a train wreck, actually. Last year brought many upheavals, including a…
Ever since middle school, when I first read Eyes of the Dragon and The Stand, I have had an admiration…
In October 2025, Jason and I took his Mom, Ruby, to see New England in the Fall in time for…
Jason and I spent time in Vancouver in September 2018. Jason, Tera, Talon, Ruby, and I spent time in Quebec…
The first tree we planted was for our Aunt Debbie, through TreeFolks, as part of an effort to replenish trees…
We did it! Jason and I walked the entire length of the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2024.