Yes, this is my life

I generally am just entertained by the random nonsense the flows from Sarah Palin's mouth hole. I've told my friends that if Maya Angelou and Dr. Seuss were first cousins and grew up in the same trailer park, Sarah would be their inbred love child. I am convinced her most recent speech was sponsored by Wild Turkey. I typically cant help but not take her incoherent rambling seriously as I cant really decipher what it is shes actually saying. I mean...I hear the words but cant make out her point. Its odd and tragically hilarious. I read somewhere her dad was a retired teacher? Did he teach wood shop? She has no grasp of punctuation AT ALL ! It's fun. However.... Hours before she spoke publicly endorsing  Trump her son was arrested for domestic assault, public intoxication and brandishing an AR-15 threatening suicide. ...but wait there's more! Sarah Palin blamed her son's shitty behavior on Obama, PTSD and war service. This actually infuriates me. Sarah, your s...

Next week I am off to the Annual TAPS suicide Survivor seminar. I just learned today that several members from the VA and DOD will be present and meeting with the head of TAPS and survivors to gain more insight to the causes and effect of veteran suicide. I was told that I may be able to share my thoughts and also ask questions personally. I'm excited and nervous. I want to give them all that I've learned from survivors and military families at risk.  Some of my questions are about the suicide reports published by the DOD. They cite several commonalities in suicides they've studied. Some of them really bother me. Most of them are fairly generic and barely scratch the surface of the real core issues facing suicidal service members. The first one I can recall off the top of my head is marital issues. All marriages, civilian and military go through periods of strife. The difference I believe is coping skills. If you were to ask 100 couples in which one spouse was dealing with ...