After months of praying, months more of searching, and a lot of hand-wringing, it is finally official. I've accepted a contract with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education. Effective September 1, I'll be teaching high school in Dnipro, just behind the front line.
Frankly, I wanted to fight rather than work as a civilian. I would have preferred to go back and fight the Barbarian Hordes of Neo-Mongol Russistan, to avenge the murders of my students and the massacres I've witnessed, the drive the Satanic Orcs back to the third-world pit that spawned them. Unfortunately the International Legion has no use for a man who can't run to a battle because of a leg that is disabled (maimed by a botched surgery performed by none other than Putin's Chinese masters). I suppose the fact that they're that picky and choosy already dismembers the myth about "desperate Ukrainian conscription gangs" haranguing old men and children because the men are supposedly all dead, doesn't it?
However, schools near the front line are in need of teachers with First Responder experience, people who can run a proper class who also know how to get their classes to safety if an emergency situation arises (like the ruZZonazi war criminals targeting the school with one of their missiles the way they so often do), so a ten-year ESL teacher who happens to be an ex-cop and ex-firefighter was just what the doctor ordered. While I'm there, I'll be doing what I always do when I'm overseas: writing what I see in-person. In this way, I'll be combating the Kremlin-approved lies of ruZZonazi trolls like Jeffrey Epstein's most 
The move will not be cheap. Since the ruZZonazis maintain their barbaric (and obviously illegal) practice of firing on all air traffic in Ukraine's skies, the only way into the country is to fly to Poland and catch a train across the border. Once there, there is the initial expense of renting temporary housing until I can find an apartment. If any of my readers are able and willing to help put a pair of eyes and an untamed pen on the ground in Ukraine, I'll be grateful for contributions to my buymeacoffee page. You could also help buy buying a copy of one of my books. To those who can't, just read the truth here and remember what you read.
The name "Ukraine" will thunder through history alongside the names of "Sparta," "Valley Forge" and "Alamo," long after the name "Russia" is a misty memory known only to historians who study barbarian tribes. It is an honor to know I will be there to witness Ukraine's triumph.
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
-Nehemiah 4:17