The New Englander

I know everyone has heard the old saw about how "No good deed goes unpunished" many times before. I'm sure most of us have ev...

I know I've written a time or two here about "What it Takes," by Richard Ben Cramer. It's an exhaustive account of the 19...

My command had a bit of a 'regime change' a couple months ago. One of the things I love about it is that we ALL (that is, all ages, ...

Remember when you were a kid trying to use a vending machine, and you had to find just the right dollar bill, that never had a single crea...

I might think this would be showing my hand as the new guy in Massachusetts, but I want at least partial credit for the fact that this isn...

A slightly belated Merry Christmas. My blogging "optempo" has fallen off quite a bit lately, given work requirements, so thanks f...

This Boston Globe photoessay centers around the 1-181 Infantry, a battalion of the Massachusetts Army National Guard headquartered out of W...