The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

I woke up at 2:34 AM (yes, I looked at the clock). Someone was shouting. What was it? A party? I couldn’t tell at first. I gradually recognized the cadence of some kind of cheer, a la ‘Hip hip hooray,’ or some other inane B.S. Then I heard British accents. (Maybe their football team had [...]

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My newest Military Spouse blog post is up:

Warning: This Post Contains Baby Poop

I try to keep my baby poop stories to a minimum. Even though I, being the father of a 5-month-old son, find the subject continuously hilarious, I realize other people may actually find it disgusting. That said, I can’t resist telling this one:

So [...]

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I found this collection about writers’ rooms a while back and for some reason didn’t post it. It’s a great collection of photos and descriptions of the places where writers write. Most are UK authors, but there are a few Americans present. My favorites are JG Ballard’s and Martin Amis’s. I also liked Geoff Dyer’s.
In [...]

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My new post, Being Neighborly, is up at Military Spouse.
Our years in the Navy have exposed us to our fair share of interesting neighbors. There was the guy in Navy housing who would haul our trash from our backyard to the curb every trash day and occasionally bring us a fish he’d speared from his [...]

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This morning, I bounced over to Metacritic — an aggregator of film, music, game, TV, and book reviews — to take a look at their composite review of James Frey’s new book Bright Shiny Morning. Except what I found was this message:
*Note: Metacritic’s regular coverage of Books has concluded with the final Harry Potter installment. [...]

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I’ve published two new posts at the Military Spouse blog.
Whether they were wise to have done so or not, they’ve upgraded my status from ‘contributor’ to ‘author,’ so now I can publish direct to the blog without having to wait for approval.
[Cue evil laughter]

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I put down The Comfort of Strangers last night, reluctantly, at about midnight. I only had twenty-five pages left, but I was exhausted. So this morning, before getting out of bed, before coffee, I finished it.
This is a short, mean little book. It’s less than 130 pages long, so many readers could polish it off [...]

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I’ve been in one of my fiction slumps in 2008. Maybe it’s because a lot of my reading time has been usurped by parenting time, but it’s also more than that.
For one thing, I spend a lot more time online than I used to. The proliferation of blogs and the movement of print content onto [...]

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This is one of the best shorts I’ve seen in a long time.

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