Status Updates From Shore Leave

I'm not going to try and placate her and whatever she's feeling. If she's worried about her sister, she has a right to worry. If she's pissed that she's here because of her sister's $h!t, she has the right to that too.

Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Emery: I was only five when Katrina swept through ...

(Wikipedia says that was in 2005. This was published in early 2025 ... so she's 24-25 now?)

I've never had anyone on the back of my bike before. It means something to me and to the men of the DSMC. It's not something we f#ck around with. It's hallowed and sacred.

That was my dream, what I was working toward before $h!t got real in my life and I became an 18-year-old boy who had a mom and sisters who needed me to step up for them.

She's shorter than my 6'3" height, but she's not pint sized. She's probably 5'7" ...

Can I ask how you got your road name?

I work out in the Gulf on an oil rig.

(Kade/Driller): ... feel much older than my almost 29 years.

The number of people who don’t understand I can’t tattoo them when they’re drunk off their @$$e$ is kind of wild.