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VA diagnoses: anxiety, chemical dependency, depression and PTSD.

I didn’t start out depressed. I didn’t wake up one day and was depressed. It’s a journey, like many I’ve been on. Except that I don’t know when or where the journey really began. I don’t know where depression is going to take me or when the journey will end. There were road markers along…

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Interesting places that I’ve been: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

The first time I went to St. John’s, it was an experience not to be forgotten. I think of St. John’s as an adult Disneyland. From 2003 until about 2014 I was there at least twice a year, many years it was more. When flying the C-130 to Europe, or on to the Middle East,…