Reaching Lifelong Goals

Again, I have gone too long without posting.   I’ll have to make a strict goal about this…   One of the premier Christmas gifts from my wonderful wife this year was a membership in the Society for Military History.    Another professional historian association directly related to my area of study.   They publish a journal .   It is filled with scholarly works about military subjects (all eras) and reviews of other publications in the field.   I eat this stuff up, the wife says it would put her to sleep.   I have been able to digest a couple of issues now, and I am in geek heaven!!   As my college career advances as a nontraditional student and history major, this publication will be a great resource for me.   In addition, the contacts made through active participation in the Society will be extremely valuable down the road.   As I progress as a historian, essays and scholarly papers will be submitted for publication in the Journal.  To think that one of my historical essays could be a footnote in someone’s own paper is kind of a rush!! (history geek rush, but you get the picture…)   I pour through these types of papers every term in my research for assignments.   I have used my Endnote Program to develop my resource list for my Ernst Udet book and the Journal of Military History figures prominently in my saved notes.  My wife has a real knack for picking the perfect Christmas presents for me.   Thank goodness I thought better of giving her that lowly kitchen item as a gift.  It would be pale in comparison.   I will be looking forward to each quarterly edition of this journal, and will thank my wife for it each time.    Let’s see, quarterly publication, a dozen roses every few months…sounds like a win/win to me!!