The Velvet Hammer Blog

This was my journal entry the night before I went to Myanmar (Burma) to work with the Karen Army. Thoughts of family and friends, a home of comfort and peace. A call from Arizona and a tear from my father....

Are you the kind of guy that most people don't get? Why are so many ofour veterans committing suicide? Why are they so overwhelmed withdepression? Simple... people don't understand them and it makes themcrazy.Do you have the ability to wade...

I am reminded of a trip I took to the Grand Tetons in Idaho to summit the middle Teton with my son and a group of young men and adults. This trip took place a couple years after a gunshot...