As Friday was coming to a close, my bride sent me a list of restaurants from a RedPlum email giving away free meals or portions of meals for Veterans Day. I’ve actually never taken advantage of such deals on Vets Day, but given that it was Friday, and the children love to eat at “rest-or-nots,” [...]
There is nothing pretty about this anorexic caterpillar parked on my face. I even got the “You going for the Chester the Molester look or something?” and “Did you lose a bet?” questions today at drill weekend, which surprised me, since the prevalence of mustaches among enlisted military folk is much higher than what I [...]
Me: Did y’all talk about anything that happened in the news today at school? Maddie: No, we never talk about stories from the news at my school. Me: You didn’t hear about a guy named Osama bin Laden? Maddie: No. I don’t know who…I don’t know that person. Me: Well, he’s bad, but he was [...]
First, finagle your way into another military-sponsored trip to a base in Hawaii. Second, take an 8-month-old. Third, pray said 8-month-old refrains from screaming during the 19 hours spent on airplanes. Simple! We left on Sunday, a few hours before the Atlanta Snowpocalypse 2011 (leaving my mother in charge of three children who were out [...]
Among the pages of captioned color photographs from my 2003 deployment is one that sticks out. There’s a woman in uniform, not unlike every other picture I have of persons in Iraq. But then there’s this guy. He has no BDU t-shirt or DCU pants; he’s in a white cotton button up with rolled sleeves [...]
