ThomasLitchford

It’s rare to see a piece about male military spouses (i.e. military husbands) in the wide circulation press because we’re such a minority part of the military spouse community. But today I stumbled on this USA Today editorial on military husbands.
(Via My Military Life.)
It’s a nice little piece, and it speaks to something of a [...]

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Angel food cake is one of my favorite things. It’s so simple and good and sweet. I have never contemplated baking it at home. Danielle on the other hand, has made 2 sponge cakes (a lemon sponge cake and the angel food cake) in as many weeks.
There’s a story here. First: we’ve had a lot [...]

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My new post, Strawberry Folly, is up at Milspouse.com.
We thought it would be fun to use some of them to make strawberry jam, so we bought some Ball jars, a package of pectin, and a big bag of sugar (if there’s one downside to homemade jam, it’s realizing just how much sugar you’re consuming). We [...]

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I was listening to the most recent Navy Wife Radio show. They had some very kind words about my most recent Military Spouse Magazine column. They did an interview with Brigid Branaugh from the TV show Army Wives, and then they chatted about my column at about the 60-minute mark.
It was the first time I’ve [...]

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I know Sean will be awake in about six hours, so why am I still awake?
Answer: Vanity. I’ll explain tomorrow, er, later today.

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John sent me the following e-mail:
Lists are dumb, but you’ll probably have an opinion about this one.
Entertainment Weekly’s The New Classics: Books
To which I replied:
Yeah, I saw this and thought about blogging it. We actually get a free subscription to Entertainment Weekly because of some concert tickets we bought like three years ago. They just [...]

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In keeping with the mandates of the Litchford Year of Bliss (which encompasses Sean’s first year of life, Danielle’s year of educational leave from the Navy, and my year of writing-unfettered-by-a-horrible-desk-job), the Litchfords went strawberry picking yesterday.

The weather forecast threatened storms that never came. It was a beautiful day.

Danielle did most of the picking, because…

I [...]

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So, I didn’t get any pictures of the actual madness of the book sale (the lighting in there would have made for lousy pics, anyway), but here’s a shot of what we brought home.
If you’re a stickler for accuracy, you’ll find that there are 24 books here, not 21. Three of them were purchased off [...]

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Yesterday, the Newport Public Library began its summer book sale. They arranged all the books people have donated and the books the library has taken out of circulation (for whatever reason) all along these long tables in the cramped lower lobby. Most of what’s on offer is total crap, but you can occasionally find a [...]

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