The Adventures of Captain Imperfecto

You are here: Home » Memorial Day Thoughts of my Dad Christopher graduating from Kindergarten. Class of 2028. May 26, 2016 My dad served in Vietnam. He didn't volunteer to go. He was drafted when he was just a kid. Can you imagine what it must have felt like to be an 18 + year old kid and hearing the rumblings from the news of a war brewing and being told that you may be forced to go? How scared must my dad have been? After all these years, can you believe I never even asked him if he was? That's pretty damn selfish of me. When you're sent to war against our will, given a gun, and told to kill, what does that do to a man? All those kids who were sent off to war and land they more than likely never heard of to fight a person they never would have met in their lifetime must have been a nightmare. Being a father now, I would be petrified for my children to be carted off overseas into battle without them actually volunteering to go. When I was 18, I was told I had...

You are here: Home » Return the Love, part I Nico (left) and his brother, Christopher, enjoying a lazy sunday morning  05/22 May 24, 2016 *This blog is not a reflection on anyone that I know, including not a reflection of myself or my current situation. It was just a thought I had after talking with a few people regarding their own situations. It was 1400 words so I broke it into 2 parts. This is part I" - cf Part I Why does it seem that most people I have been encountering do not want to be happy? Is this by design? Maybe it’s in their DNA to be miserable or mean to people? Come on guys and gals let us try, and at least be civil towards one and other. Return the love. These people have no reason to be intolerable. We are not in a purgatory digging a ditch. The angry people seem nice when I meet and greet them at restaurants, or in line at a store, or when I’m stopped behind their car while waiting at a red light while I observe them yelling into their phone...