Category: Reflections

I’d been hiking for four or five hours by the time my legs started arguing with me. Just me and the mountain — no kids, no wife, no one to keep pace with or talk to. That deep burn in the quads, the kind that makes you start negotiating with yourself. Just a little further.…

Another American has died—shot down in the street. A U.S. citizen. An ICU nurse. A helper. A human being. When I watch the video of what happened to Alex Pretti, what really strikes me isn’t just the senselessness of it — it’s how ordinary and humane his actions appeared in that moment. Alex wasn’t running…