We just got home from Sean’s 6-month check-up. I’m happy to report he’s as healthy as can be. To sort of copy a post John put up a couple months ago, here’s a look at how Sean has changed in the past 6 months as we retire his car seat: He’s also in the 90th …
I’m going to be interviewed tonight on Navy Wife Radio at 9:00 pm. Follow the link to listen LIVE at 9:00, or you can hear an archived version of the show available at the same link 1 hour after the show airs.
…or newspaper or magazine for a screen—if the screen could fold?
As publishing moves into the digital future, Jonathan Karp sees the end of disposable books: Many categories of books will be subsumed by digital media. Reference publishing has already migrated online. Practical nonfiction will be next, winding up on Web sites that can easily update and disseminate visual and textual information. Readers of old-fashioned genre …
The Litchfords are planning a trip to New York, NY. I wrote about it in my post Big Apple Baby at Milspouse.com. The first complication was the summer heat. I can’t imagine carrying Sean all over New York City in 85° heat in the Baby Bjorn carrier. So then we thought we’d just bring our …
I guess I always knew the semicolon was an unpopular bit of punctuation. If you read enough, you can just sort of feel it. But I didn’t know the story of the semicolon was so entertaining: The semicolon has spent the last century as a fussbudget mark. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell disdained it; Kurt …
Just a quick announcement: I’m going to be a guest on the Navy Wife Radio podcast next week. They do the show live at 9 pm. I’ll post a more direct link if I can. You can either listen in live, or you can download the show later. I’ll be posting more about it as …
The last novel I finished reading was Other People by my hero Martin Amis. It wasn’t his best showing. It was one of his early novels, and it feels like he struggled with the storytelling aspect of the novel. His trademark style (hard, accurate prose, black humor) was taking shape, but it took one more …
