Carl Lance

Collateral Damage

Collateral damage is any death, injury, or other damage inflicted that is an unintended result of military operations. It’s a tragedy that can hurt or even kill those affected by it, demoralize your forces and devastate the one who caused the mistake. Collateral damage is a clear victory for your enemy because of the harm […]

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What a Waste!

I can’t help but watch the Hearings going on in the U.S. House of Representatives. Not because it’s interesting, but it’s on all the television news channels. Despite being told it’s a bad idea by their leaders, they pressed forward with impeachment and the news media is eating it up. The hearings monopolize the news,

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Off Limits!

When my wife is doing laundry, the area in the house where she is working is completely off limits! We’ve been married for 41 years, and I have learned the hard way to leave her alone and stay far away. She won’t answer the phone and for sure won’t answer the door if someone stops

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It’s Simple

I like watching the Sherlock Holmes video series, because of his incredible powers of deduction. The answer to complex problems can seem so simple once you know the solution. Sherlock would say “it’s elementary” but he was a genius. In one version of the series, the simple-minded Doctor Watson would explain Sherlock’s deduction process by

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Happily Ever After

I love stories where everything “turns out right.” Maybe that is from the children’s stories I love that ended in “and they lived happily ever after.” That used to be the norm for stories and movies, but now they have tragic endings. When did misery become entertaining? I see lots of posts on the internet

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