Russ Emerson | June 15, 2005
Today is something of a milestone for me. It was five years ago today that I arrived in North Carolina, after having pulled up stakes and left California. Relocating long-distance was nothing particularly new for me. I’d gone to college in the Midwest, and I’d been stationed in Texas and New England — not to […]
Russ Emerson | April 15, 2005
An observant reader may have gathered from a couple of past entries here that I’m something of a battleship aficionado. The reader would be correct. Nothing says “are you ready to surrender yet?” like an American battleship showing up on your coastline, ready to begin lobbing 2000-pound shells. Saddam’s army learned that lesson in 1991, […]