nomadic – Shawn D. Congleton ~ author

Chuck Norris doesn’t get PTSD, PTSD gets Chuck Norris—BUT what about his family?

I remember growing up in the 80s, noticing just how many, mostly action movies, but definitely more than a few dramatic representations of the aftermath of the Vietnam War on our servicemen. I was introduced to First Blood by a small town pastor that lived near us when he played it for my six yearContinue reading “Chuck Norris doesn’t get PTSD, PTSD gets Chuck Norris—BUT what about his family?”

It’s difficult to describe how our moving took us cross country many times, especially in the early days. When I say we lived in twenty places in Colorado, we didn’t always move from one place in Colorado to another. We often moved to Indiana, then Wisconsin, down to Kansas, up to Nebraska, over to Nevada,Continue reading “Wandering… an excerpt from Ch. 11 of NEVER SETTLED: a memoir of a boy on the road to manhood”