My grandfather gave me his National Guard Manual, according to his handwritten inscription, on August 5, 1997 and wished me “a lot of happy experiences in the National Guard.” It has sat on a bookshelf for over ten years until last weekend, when I flipped through it for a bit […]
Here is the email I wrote a close friend who turns 40 tomorrow. Shane and I deployed to Iraq together in March 2003 and slept in cots a few inches apart for 5 months in a tent with no air conditioning, showers, or running water. Embellished yarns, smuggled alcohol, […]
As I’ve written about before, we’re too cheap to buy a booster seat for Toddler, so she sits on phonebooks in a grownup chair when we gather around the table to break bread every evening. Today, I noticed she’d shed her drawers for some reason and was sitting bare ass. […]
Toddler celebrated her newly-received promotion by winning the random drawing that concludes every Muskrat family reunion to encourage staying until after the last of the Mississippi Mud has been eaten and the last of the over 80 crowd tells the last of the under 35 crowd how glad they are […]
I like this film because: 1) it tells a good, believable story in which anyone can be the hero 2) it has a fitting soundtrack 3) it accurately portrays the volume of pigeons everywhere in Europe 4) the beggar’s new sign correctly uses the comma (the old version needed a semicolon) […]
