Although I didn't have much time to prepare, the morning service went well. Good to have an idea for a sermon come to mind this morning, some what at the last minute. The theme finally developed in to, "the shepherd knows". I think it was... [More]

Wouldn't you know it. I have a head cold. It is 116 degrees outside and I get a cold! So had to deal with the achy, want to go to sleep feeling all day. Went to chaplain's training this morning. Finished my slides for tonight's briefing ... [More]

Had another downer Wednesday. I think it is the malaria pills. For the past couple of weeks I have taken the pill on Monday and by Wednesday I am feeling out of it. There was a rock band that performed tonight, Brick foot. They were good, nice of th... [More]

Well it is the close of another day. In fact this is the 169 day of deployment, with 378 to go until June 1, 2005 and, 271 days until our year in country is done. Now whether that means we will get to go home then remains to be seen. It struck me tha... [More]

Another week has gone by. One more for the month of May then it is on to June. Even though that is the half way mark for the year, we still are not half way through the deployment. Have to stop thinking about how long just keep to today. It may sou... [More]

Well it felt like I hit a wall to day. Don't know how to describe it. The day started okay, planned the Memorial day ceremony, I think MSG Chisholm, kind of set me off. When she talked about the program, she acted like it was life and death, an... [More]

Well, as I have said 160 times before, another day done. It was a quiet one. Which I hope all of them will be. For some reason the news seems depressing, fighting, fighting. People talking who don't seem to make much sense, and you wonder how in ... [More]

Just another day here in Iraq. It seems strange to say it. Me in Iraq. Iraq is one of those places that you read about in the history books. Some obscure country that had nothing to do with me. But here I sit, in Iraq. I hope to get out of it alive. ... [More]