Category Archives: Life

I have very fond memories of playing with camera’s from an early age, and I can only guess it was brought on by my father always playing with them, and video cameras. Dad has never been far from any sort of camera. There was one camera I remember playing with that didn’t work, it wasContinue reading “Child’s eye view”

It has been a while since my last post but my family and I have had a fair bit going on. My wife and I recently welcomed the newest member of our crew, a beautiful baby girl, Elayna. With me working away for the first part of the year, then having to fly back homeContinue reading “The New Crew Member”

Well what a year it has been already for so many. As for my little family, I left them at the start of January for me to work at the navy base in Darwin. I had a lot of reservations about leaving them, considering Shayne being pregnant and issues we had with Harrison’s school lastContinue reading “Home School”

Naming a baby, there’s an interesting experience. When Shayne was pregnant with our first child we compiled several lists and notes of names we liked. We also had the added pressure, and excitement, of not knowing the sex of the baby; so we ended up with lists of boys and girls names. We were mixingContinue reading “Not Indiana”

For over half my naval career going away and not regularly communicating with my family and friends wasn’t a problem, I enjoyed being away just doing my job. My parents would only receive an email from me at sea, maybe, once every week or two. For a while they would occasionally call my good mateContinue reading “The distant parent”

Did that heading get your attention? I hope so. Apparently some people don’t like to read too much. This is for you. No one has actually complained to me it’s just some people don’t feel like reading that much. When I was looking into creating this blog site I had no idea how to createContinue reading “The short one”

This is the last of my Navigating Depression series but it is by far not the end of the many things I have faced while dealing with depression. Two steps forward, one step back My journey to try and get better mostly went well but I suffered setbacks; it felt like taking two steps forwardContinue reading “Navigating Depression- Part 6”

Test the waters I had regular sessions over several months with the senior psychologist until she was satisfied for me to make steps getting back to sea. I was never offered promotion to Petty Officer on completion of the promotion course. Attempts were made to still get me to join TSE but it was stronglyContinue reading “Navigating Depression- Part 5”

No direction Moving into 2012 my life continued to spiral downwards and I was just barely keeping my head up. There had been a bit of talk about me possibly being promoted to Petty Officer but I just couldn’t find any interest in the prospect. All I saw was more complications, more stress, more responsibility,Continue reading “Navigating Depression- Part 4”

At some point while I was in high school I developed an interest in helicopters, I’m not sure why, but my best friend Ben and I would talk about them all the time. We’d go to the school library and research them, do small research projects on them and build models of them. For prettyContinue reading “Not learning to fly”