
Powerlifting: Becoming Strong By Pushing Your Boundaries
Powerlifting What is powerlifting? It is a strength sport that tests three major lifts: typically squat, flat bench, and deadlift. Some organizations use the military press in place of the bench. You get three chances at each lift to see what your maximum weight you...

Suddenly You Realize Apathy Has Set In
Descending Spiral One article in eighty-one days, not good at all, especially when I was churning out three to five articles a week; I am not talking about other authors, only myself. For Padre has been cranking along through thick and thin. He is sharing...

Small Victories Lead To Big Wins
Small Victories Sometimes in life, you have to take the small victories and run with them. I actually believe the small victories are more important than the large ones. I have not made it a secret that this year has been a rough year for me here on the farm. This...

A Thief Takes More Than Material Items, They Destroy Your Way Of Life
A Thief If there is one thing that I cannot stand, it is a thief. I think they are an absolute pestilence on society, and there is no use for one. There may be a few exceptions to this rule. Still, generally, thieves have no good excuse for theft other than being lazy...

My 3 Goals – I Have Come To A Decision
Wins & Losses of Goals Two years ago, I would never have imagined I would be where I am today. Before the pandemic, before working from home. Before taking my income into my own hands and trying this thing freelance style. It has been challenging; I have failed at...

Focused On Lessons Learned From Farming
There is one thing that will always be true. If you want to know more about life, be a farmer. The number of lessons I have learned over the past ten years could fill a book, and I may write a book about it soon. Of course, some lessons are more significant than...

Deep In the Woods, This Story Begins
Hiking Back in December of 2001. About 3 o’clock in the morning, I went hiking near the Burkhead mountains wilderness in North Carolina and headed towards a tree stand that I had hanged deep in the woods. It was a 2-hour hike in, and I wanted to be in the stand before...

A Simple Lesson To Teach Your Son
A Hard lesson from Mother Nature Over the past month, we have had a record amount of rain. Starting with tropical storm Claudette, and I cannot remember a single day without rain in the month since. The last time I checked, we were just short of 6 feet of rain for the...

Sales, Salesman, Snake Oil Salesman, Stop Justifying
Sales Sales, one of the best ways to make money, often with no cap on what you can earn, let's face it here in the USA, the populace at large has become consumer-based. People are working to keep up with the Joneses and everyone they see online through their social...

Is It Child Abuse Or Responsible Parenting?
Accusations Apparently, I am a child abuser, according to a user on Twitter. I am the worst kind of human being on this planet. I have destroyed my daughter's innocence and robbed her of the joys of being a child. I am also a terrible Christian. I am a villain to be...

The Jarl
A man of passion and of vision.
Nathan leads his clan of barbarians into the modern world with one quest for his horde.
To seize back their lands from modern society.
To return our families to the values that once enhanced our lives to the greatest heights it had ever known.