Roomies

Roomies

by KIMSNo Comments
After landing in Okinawa, Japan, it was time to receive our assignment for a roomy. Looking through my lens of autism, all of this adjusting was purely matter-of-fact, for me. My father taught me (and my siblings) to become expert situational adapters. Sometimes there's no choice but to make due with the situation you've been given. There was, certainly, nothing I could do about the circumstance of deployment, so, adapt. I made the best of it and remember: I'm just 18 years old. As for my roomy, he introduced himself as Stanley K. Burrell. He said the "K" was for Kirk. I'm a big Star Trek fan, so, his name being Kirk (like Captain Kirk) and the fact we were in the Navy was, ironically, perfect. From that moment forward, I knew him as Kirk Burrell. Always curious and ready to take a new experience head on, my first purchase was a 10 speed bicycle. This was my transportation to...
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The Beginning…

The Beginning…

by KIMSNo Comments
Well... This has been a long time coming. I'm going to tell, from my personal experience, how the whole MC Hammer phenomenon began. With the world heavy in the throws of the aggressively contagious COVID-19 disease, a manufactured recession, forced U.S. unemployment and worldwide protests demanding equal autonomy and restitution for the descendants of enslaved African diaspora, it's been a crazy beginning to 2020. I'm telling this story, not to discount the importance of all that's currently happening, but, to share something unexpectedly positive and selfless. I feel the world needs to hear this, right now. MC Hammer is an incredibly kind, compassionate and humble person toward me. He didn't know me. He just 'had a feeling' about me. That's it. That's all it took. The rest is written in the history books. So, how did we meet? It was early 1984 and my assigned Naval Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VP-47) was preparing for deployment to Okinawa, Japan. I hadn't quite met all of...
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