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Category: Memoir

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The End of Justice for Our Neighbors

20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
On December 16th, I mailed out the final 990 from North Carolina Immigration Law & Justice Center (founded as Fayetteville Justice for Our Neighbors) to the IRS. I notified Truist…
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Time Travel and Guilty of Everything

25 Nov 202525 Nov 2025
Aside from giving two interviews in January, I've gone a year without engaging with the news media. I am essentially a time traveler from November 2024. This is, of course,…
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Philpot

24 Apr 202516 May 2025
By now, I should have learnedthat Pepsi for its own sakeisn’t really whyPhilpot would steal it back to the barracks—a sack of America's second favorite under his ACUs,risking his skin.That…
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On “Diary of A Man in Despair”

18 Mar 202520 Sep 2025
Per Goodreads, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen "began a secret diary in May 1936, which describes how a psychosis enveloped an entire society, enabling Hitler's rise to power, and the Nazi regime. His…
Memoir

Brokedick: A Memoir Excerpt, Part III

12 May 202412 May 2024
Now I still wear my Army-issue eyeglasses when I exercise. BCGs, Birth Control Glasses, because the idea is that no one will want to sleep with you if you’re wearing…
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Banned Books

2 Oct 20233 Oct 2023
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 was met by my students with tepid interest at first. In the characters they sometimes saw themselves, a parent, a sibling, or a…
Memoir

Brokedick: A Memoir Excerpt

16 Jul 202317 Jul 2023
I joined the United States Army in June 2007. With the encouragement of my recruiters, I lied about my pre-existing health conditions. When those conditions became known at Basic Combat…
Memoir…

Net

10 Sep 20208 Apr 2025
In adolescence, I was fortunate enough to live on a small barrier island off the Cape Fear coast. During the summers, I spent hours mastering the use of a casting…
Memoir

The Bible: A Review

26 Dec 201821 Apr 2022
My Bible Story It was time. After the Dhammapada, Qu'ran, Book of Mormon, Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao te Ching, I figured it was time to take on the big…
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Retention

22 Dec 201825 Jul 2021
I begin the semester with a plea, a sermon, a prophecy: "Y'all are adult students. Stuff happens. Stuff is going to happen. People will get sick, bosses will work you…

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