Waiting for First Light at Slaughterhouse Five: PTSD and a Coda to te end of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am checking out of my current command to finish my career attached to Norfolk Naval Shipyard, in Portsmouth Virginia. I am struggling. Not feeling appreciated and...
View ArticleThe Cost of Service: Doctors, Nurses, First Responders, and other Medical...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’ve served in ERs and ICUs during pandemics, but none as bad as this one. Likewise, I have seen far too many people die, I lost count somewhere after 700, but can...
View ArticleSleep is a Unicorn: The Worst Thing is to Try to Sleep and Not To
Pearls Before Swine (c) Stephan Pastis Friends of Padre Steve’s World, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” I have lived Ever since I got back from...
View ArticleThe Racial Terror Mass Murder at Emmanuel AME Church at Five Years
“You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” Dylann Storm Roof Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I continue to work on the revisions to my book I am reposting an...
View ArticleWhen Heroes Return from War: Joshua and Fannie Chamberlain and the...
Fannie and Joshua Chamberlain (Dale Gallon) Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have been catching up one work around the house, working on my book so hopefully I can have it ready...
View ArticleJustice, Mercy, Forgiveness, Raymond Reddington and Me
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In spite of being very busy working in the house and going back to work to deal with the crisis d’jour I have been very reflective about all I have been through over...
View ArticleRacists, Neo-Nazis, Holocaust Deniers, Christian Theocrats, and Trump...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tonight I draw my line in the sand and I will not stand down against people who threaten to use violence or intimidation against me, and what I believe to be true. I...
View Article“ I pray to you to help me, and every day I get worse. Are you deaf, too?“...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, A few nights ago I watched the final episode of the television series M*A*S*H “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.” As I mentioned in my last blog both the series and the film...
View ArticleA Time to Stand against the Coming Coup of the Trump Cult
Munich Police Defeat Hitler’s Bier Hall Putsch at Odeonsplatz Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As the evidence continues to mount that President Trump and his nefarious Cult which encompasses most of...
View ArticleIt is a Long Way to Tipperary: thoughts on Return from War and Betrayal
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am a bit tired and going to post something that basically is a rerun with a few edits. Twelve years ago stepped off a plane with the man who had been my body...
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