The parents of some members of the USNA Class of 2025 are making themselves known on some of the Academy-related Facebook pages. Combined with the announcement that there will be a modified, in-person commissioning for the Class of 2021, we have clear signs we are emerging from the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic and the … Continue reading Unsolicited advice for the USNA Class of 2025

While uncertainty is usually the rule of the day when it comes to the Naval Academy, there are a few things you can depend on, one of them being your time there will be an emotional roller coaster. I was recently reminded of that, even though I no longer have a Mid on The Yard. … Continue reading Shotgunning and the Green-Eyed Monster

Being a Naval Academy parent has led me to connect pretty much everything back to life on The Yard and Easter is no different. My complicated relationship with Easter began more than 40 years ago, sitting on the couch in the family room on a cool overcast morning. I was staring at a chocolate bunny … Continue reading Reflections on Easter and “your experience is the right experience”

A fellow USNA parent messaged me on Facebook the other day. "Sorry to see that you've shut down your blog. I guess since your son graduated, you had to move on," then went on with a few humbling platitudes. My first thought was that I had let the domain expire and some URL squatter had … Continue reading Adrift among endless ROM and COVID fatigue

I have found it increasingly difficult to write as 2020 smoldered to its inevitable end and 2021 began with little regard for all the hope we had pinned upon its arrival. My confidence that things - I mean everything ... or at least something - would actually change and improve began to wane under the … Continue reading Groundhog Day: USNA 2021 style