the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
In July our son Lemon visited the United States for the first time. An American citizen born in Singapore, finally in the land of the free where the streets are paved with . . . bubblegum. I placed him on the sidewalk at New York City’s JFK Airport for a minute, then quickly scooped him [...]
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We have a friend visiting Singapore from Xi’an, China, where she has been teaching English for nearly a year. It seemed like a much more interesting option than continuing to be unemployed in New York City after she was laid off last year. I first met Jen online in about 1993 when she was a [...]
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Shahzad dropped off a getaway car last Friday in New York, a government official said, but a day later, he locked the keys to it, and to his Connecticut apartment, in an SUV that he drove into Times Square. That forced Shahzad to take the train back to his Bridgeport, Conn., apartment. Despite the seriousness of [...]
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Our daughter turns four years old this week, so I am now in a frenzy of planning her birthday party. We decided to try a pizza-making party along with a party game or two. Plus I will make two cakes: One for the home party and one for her preschool. So far this has been [...]
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