Today I read the Grimm fairy tale “The Fisherman and His Wife.” The story is simple on its surface, yet it functions as a sustained…
Service, War, Fatherhood, and Return to the Ancient Path
Today I read the Grimm fairy tale “The Fisherman and His Wife.” The story is simple on its surface, yet it functions as a sustained…
Today I turned the pages of Drake’s Great Armada (narrated chiefly by Captain Walter Bigges), an account of Sir Francis Drake’s West‑Indian expedition of 1585‑86, published by Thomas Cates. The narrative…
Today marks the start of my renewed commitment to the Harvard Classics “15 Minutes a Day” reading regimen, a full year of disciplined engagement with the…
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…