the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the monthly archives:
Our daughter likes the acoustics of our tiled bathroom. With the door closed she will stay in there for a long time belting out songs from The Sound of Music or having conversations — usually arguments — with imaginary friends.
So it only seemed right to give her an audience when I opened a moving box [...]
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Now that we have stopped traveling we realized fairly quickly how little food we had in the refrigerator. This morning I dropped Citrus off at pre-school and headed over to a recommended wet market at Chong Pang City, located one neighborhood away in Yishun. I envisioned returning with bags full of vegetables, fruit, fish and [...]
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Singapore is rewards-points crazy. Sure, in the United States there are airline, credit and store card loyalty points, and a few stores have membership clubs. But here everything including the Singapore Zoo, our daughter’s pre-school, and even buying pork buns at the mall food-court can be had with a discount if you are carrying the correct loyalty [...]
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A few months ago I heard good advice for military families moving to new duty stations. The impulse is to spend your first six months unpacking and getting your new house in order and to spend the last six months packing and waiting for the next move. As a result, you spend a year of [...]
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In my last riveting installment, I requested a 3,286-mile grocery delivery from the Yakota Air Base in Japan. That was on May 3rd.
In early June I got word that the Office of the Under Secretary Defense, in a memo dated May 20th, announced a new policy ending the use of the Military Postal Service by the commissaries [...]
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