Ryan Wilsey

We Just Wanted To Play Hockey… Before The Miracle The Winter Olympics are back. Miracle flickers across the screen. Again. Why does it hurt more every time I watch it? Read this week’s Carosa C

Jasper Parrish And The Terror At Civilization’s Edge Smoke rose over the Wyoming Valley. Settlers fled. Boys were forced to grow up in an instant. In the violent borderlands of colonial America, why did

Thomas Boyd and the Brutality of the Western Frontier The scouting mission collapsed into bloodshed. A young officer paid with his life. What does Thomas Boyd’s death reveal about the brutal price of A

William French and the Westminster Massacre Before Lexington. Before Concord. Before independence was even imaginable, blood was already shed over who had the right to govern. In March 1775, a

Scott Adams’ (Very) Public Wake What if you could attend your own wake—and learn from it? Scott Adams did. From persuasion theory to public cancellation to an unexpected final act of c

America’s Forgotten First Frontier America’s first frontier didn’t lie beyond the Mississippi—it lay right here. So why was it forgotten? And why did Vermont become a state while Great

Too Many Mondays Mondays already drain our momentum. But what happens when the calendar sneaks five of them into two weeks? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Too Man

I Memorize The Meaning, Not The Lines. Should You? Some performers memorize every word. Others memorize the meaning and let the words follow. Which approach creates greatness—and which merely creates a

To The Tables Down At Yorkside… (Wherever That May Be) The Game is never just a game—it’s tradition, rivalry, rain, family, and the ritual of returning to Yorkside. Why do moments like these stay with us lon

Hate Is The Real Root Of All Evil They say money is the root of all evil—but what if that’s the biggest lie of all? What if the real danger begins not with coins or greed, but with a qui

Should You Preserve The Past Or Forge The Future? Trains run on rails. Rockets run on dreams. Must we choose between preserving the past and chasing the stars—or can yesterday’s iron launch tom

From Tun To Tripoli, Happy 250th U.S. Marine Corps! On November 10, 1775, a fighting force was born in a Philadelphia tavern. Two and a half centuries later, Marines still carry a code that outlives

My Life With AI—Part VI: How To Spot AI Content – Or – Apparently, I Am A Robot There’s a flood of “original” pieces that read like they were assembled by an obedient honor student. You don’t need a polygraph; you need the moral e

My Life With AI—Part V: Why GenAI (And All Search Engines) Fail GenAI isn’t the villain—bad sourcing is, from a Google AI demo to Wikipedia’s bias for “recognized” media that drowns out primary facts. If algorithm

The Compliment That Caught Me Speechless Have you ever been blindsided by a comment? The woman’s remark caught me off guard. Was it a sly compliment or a subtle jab? Read this week’s Carosa Com

Sails of Discovery, Anchors of Defense Celebrate Two Birthdays, One Destiny October honors two great beginnings upon the sea—Columbus’s daring voyage of discovery and the U.S. Navy’s birth of defense. Each launched from humbl

Optimal Teamwork Relies On Every ‘I’ In Team They say there’s no “I” in team. But what if business success depends on every “I” striving for excellence? How can leaders turn individual drive int

How Math Saved My Life: From High School Disappointment to Hall of Fame Speech A scarlet “M” for math once felt like failure. Years later, a black-ice spin turned that unwanted award into a lifesaving truth. What happened next? Rea

Eerie Echoes Today of Daniel Shays, the Forgotten Patriot Who Sparked the Constitution Eerie echoes of Daniel Shays still ring today. This forgotten Patriot, once branded a rebel, forced America to confront its founding promises. What was

‘Go Bills’—The Universal Language Two simple words—‘Go Bills!’—echoed back at me across the country. From mountain trails to hotel lobbies, they became a universal language of belongi