1. Setting the Scene In Book IV we leave Ithaca and follow Telemachus on his diplomatic tour. He and Peisistratus, the son of Nestor, arrive at Menelaus’ palace in Sparta bearing gifts—fine horses…
Where we are: Telemachus sails to Pylos to seek news of his father. What he really finds is an education in public leadership—how to speak,…
Telemachus, newly emboldened by Athene’s counsel, calls an assembly and names two evils: the loss of his father and, more pressing, the suitors who violate…
Book One functions almost like a prologue or summary, foreshadowing major episodes to come—Odysseus’ captivity with Kalypso, his encounter with the Cyclops, and other trials.…
March 31, 2011 It’s been about a week since I last wrote—mainly because I’ve been focused on preparing for deployment. These past 20 days of…
I was born דוד חכם on May 8, 1984, at 11:32 AM to John Alan Wise and Sandra Dee Cude at the West Anaheim Medical…
October 9, 2009 I was exactly one month into my third overseas deployment, this time as a Marine Corps Staff Sergeant and Explosive Ordnance Disposal…
“And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.” I was recently musing about the fragility of life. Perhaps…