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February 23rd 2020
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” —George Santayana Happy Birthday Dad<3
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February 21st 2020
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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February 20th 2020
Every year that I get older I realize I know more about myself now than I did a year ago. Getting older means, becoming the person you are meant to be. Julie Hebert
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February 19th 2020
“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from his body.” – Richard Selzer
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FeaturedFebruary 18th 2020
“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.“ Earl Wilson
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FeaturedHappy President's Day
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – George Washington
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February 17th 2020
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein
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February 16th 2020
“I used to think weight loss happens quickly, but it has taken a lot of time. There is no secret to it.” – Parineeti Chopra
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FeaturedFinally Can Explore Off Base
What is Phase 2 on Fort Sam Houston? Very simply stated, phase 2 for military personnel means freedom. Fort Sam Houston, Texas is a joint military base that teaches us all about medicine. Since being here in a student status there are phases we have to abide by. Phase 1 means you can not leave… Read more
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February 15th 2020
Happy 200th Birthday Susan B. Anthony “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” -Susan B. Anthony
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FeaturedFebruary 14th 2020
“When you have love in your heart, you never sleep alone.” Anthony T. Hincks
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February 13th 2020
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman
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FeaturedFebruary 12th 2020
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
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February 10th 2020
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” – John F. Kennedy
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February 8th 2020
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius
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FeaturedFebruary 7th 2020
Today in class today our instructors were disappointed in how low our test scores were. In a class of 72 we had 10 fail the test, and a majority got by with a barely passing grade. I fortunately passed, but I was part of the group with a barely passing score for my test. Our… Read more
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February 6th 2020
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
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February 3rd 2020
“Use your head to live with your heart.” – Yogi Tea
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February 2nd 2020
“Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson
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January 30th 2020
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
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January 29th 2020
“If you think well, you cook well.” – Ferran Adria
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January 28th 2020
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ― Eckhart Tolle
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January 27th 2020
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali
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Featured200 Posts!
Thank you everyone who is following and tapping into this adventure that I am living! I can’t believe it has already been 6 months! It took a little bit of encouragement and pushing but when I made my blog it was like a life goal was started. I’m glad I did and I have so… Read more
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FeaturedJanuary 26th 2020
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
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January 25th 2020
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold Glasow
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January 24th 2020
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett
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January 23rd 2020
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
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January 22nd 2020
“With confidence you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
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FeaturedHow Do You Study?
Everyone studies differently and that is totally ok. No two people are completely alike when it comes to learning, comprehending and retaining knowledge. Take myself for example, it turns out I am a kinesthetic and aural learner. Basically I learn best hands on and when listening and reading the material. If you are curious on… Read more
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January 21st 2020
“You love tests?”“Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What’s not to love?” – Nora Roberts
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FeaturedJanuary 20th 2020
“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
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FeaturedTrain Your Heart Out
January 19th 2020 I’m finally able to return to the gym after being sick for about two weeks. Finally got settled into my school and checked out the gym with one of the chicks in my class today. It helps that she is totally into the gym and knows almost every single work out. Here… Read more
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January 18th 2020
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
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January 17th 2020
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
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January 16th 2020
“An infantryman’s job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc’s job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, “Not today.” – Adam Fenner
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January 15th 2020
“Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.” – Albert Einstein
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FeaturedThe Clouds Above
Sometimes all you can do is look to the sky and revel. Think about the vastness of it all. Sometimes all you should do is pause, and cloud watch. Let the calming sensation flow into your soul. “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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January 14th 2020
“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think.” – Robert M. Hutchins
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FeaturedJanuary 13th 2020
What type of learner are you? In class today we have done something I never have done before. Figure out what type of learner you are. Turns out I am a Kinesthetic learner. What that means is I rely on visual aids, examples and trial and error. Which makes sense because I do all of… Read more
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FeaturedLearning A New Trade
How the Military Recently Impacted my Life Being in the military is no easy task. I recently joined the Navy again as a reservist after I completed my active duty contract. In my post Getting back that Seabag I talked about my story and why I decided to join again. Well, it’s almost my one… Read more
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January 12th 2020
“Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.” – Alexa Von Tobel
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FeaturedJanuary 11th 2020
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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January 10th 2020
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid.” – Spencer Johnson
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January 8th 2020
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
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January 6th 2020
“When there’s a will. There’s a way.” – Old English Proverb
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FeaturedJanuary 5th 2020
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” – Peter Drucker
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January 4th 2020
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
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FeaturedCandy Apples Galore!
A small treat with delicious consequences.
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FeaturedJanuary 3rd 2020
“Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
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February 22nd 2020
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” Paulo Coelho
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