the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the monthly archives:
We tried using our ice cream ball for the first time. The concept is great: You fill one end with cream and sugar, and the other end with ice and rock salt. After rolling it around for a long while it is supposed to turn into ice cream. But the ball didn’t work.
We got milkshake. La [...]
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We are back from our Labor Day camping trip a day early.
On Saturday morning, after much packing, we drove to the Navy Recreation Area near Solomons Island. It is the Navy’s largest recreation area and had many good reviews but we we found it somewhat underwhelming.
The other week I joked how last time we went [...]
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Last night was Barack Obama’s historic speech to the nation. And on Elysia’s ride home yesterday she was told “Why don’t you go back to your country?”
That would be New York City.
She was entering the Pentagon’s Metro station at the same time as an African-American woman and her daughter, who was about 8 years old. [...]
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Here I am in classy apparel that Elysia brought back from a work-related trip a couple of years ago.
My wife visited death row at Fort Leavenworth and all I got was this t-shirt and a bottle of barbecue sauce.
That’s just not right. I would expect that from a prosecutor, but not from an appellate defense attorney [...]
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The car was being repaired today so I had no way to get Citrus to daycare on base. Even if we borrowed or rented a car it would not have had the proper decals and getting a visitor pass would have been a minor pain.
So instead I took her in to work and she joined [...]
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