Leader | Communicator | Adventurer
Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. It’s also an emotional time. The sound of Christmas music frequently brings lumps to my throat, as well as joy to my heart. I don’t know why. It’s just my reality. We spent the last six years in Alaska, which is the BEST place to spend … Continue reading The Year that Life changed Christmas
Lori and I had lunch together at Joint-Base Andrews this afternoon. CNN was scrolling that congressional democrats were refusing to meet with President Trump. CSpan Radio confirmed that Minority Leaders Schumer and Pelosi had pulled out of talks with Trump during our drive home. I don’t know the full background of the situation. However, I … Continue reading In Search of a Great Communicator
“Are you sure? The blue line looks kind of faint”…… or something like that came out of my mouth. Lori, my wife of nine months, was showing me a home pregnancy test that confirmed why she had been feeling sick for the past few weeks. Lori was still finishing up her degree at Lee University. … Continue reading One Son to Change Him
“You don’t have the discipline to make it.” Someone very important in my life told me, when I said that I was thinking about joining the Army in 2003. It was not meant as an insult. It was just that from his perspective, I would not adapt to a stringent culture. Truth be told, I … Continue reading Coming of Age in Two Families
I achieved a major personal milestone this week by getting an opinion editorial published in the Baltimore Sun. It had been a personal challenge since learning how to write op-eds from the immensely talented Mike Long. Two of the things he taught is that an op-ed is only as good as the timing of the … Continue reading How 1 Newspaper Got it Wrong
I am coming to realize the deep truth within the phrase “you can’t have it all.” We moved across the country 10 months ago. I was one of five Army public affairs officers to be selected to attend a fully-funded graduate program at Georgetown University. The notice to move was short. But we had felt … Continue reading 3 Things Everyone Wants
Over the last few days the nation has been treated to a new low in politics, courtesy of the Democratic National Committee using a Gold Star family to make a cheap political shot in our ongoing ever-childish presidential race. Predictably, the press has gone wild to make victims out of the Khan family and to … Continue reading Gold Star Carpeting
Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote something like this. I did it consistently as a teenager, then went to college and got distracted. I’ve been feeling the need to start again for some time now, but didn’t get around to it, been “too busy” and all. I’m giving it a shot … Continue reading I was too busy to write a good article
Dr. Chase Spears 