SOCKS and COOKIES Supporting those who serve

I have a habit of talking/writing about our Service men and women as our friends and neighbors. I feel it's important to see our troops in that light. Because that is who they are, and that extends to their family as well. This was made real for me this year, this doggedly stressful and tortuous year when many of us may not be able to be with family for the holidays. For our Active and Deployed that is par for the course. That Socks & Cookies runs Kayak Fishing Tournaments to raise charity funds for our active military seems more than appropriate for how I met my friend and neighbor Dae Kim, father of First Lieutenant Rachel Kim. At the start, a full fishing season ago and more we would see each other at the banks of local fisheries and tag each other with an angler's wave of shared interest, (it's fishing so passion really), and wishes for good luck. Outside of a quick, "Any luck?", we didn't speak much. The following season, this past one we became infat...

  Welcome. Welcome to the very first blog edition of Socks and Cookies. An amazing grass roots organization gathering and sending support, love and a bit of home to our active and deployed Service Men and Women. We don't know each other, (yet) and we come from many different and varied places throughout this great land of ours. But we share more in common than we realize. Not least of which is that we all feel grateful and blessed to live in the United States of America; Land of the free and home of our brave service men and women.  You see, I'm a born and bred city boy from none other than New York City. But I spent many of my summers growing up in the Catskill Mountains, upstate NY where I learned to fish and fell in love with the outdoors. What does this have to do with #Socks and Cookies? And what does a city slicker have in common with a Southern gal from Arkansas? Bring it in... I'm gonna tell you a story... I love fishing. I love all kinds of fishing; Standing on a b...