The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace : Rolling Stone
This is a great piece on David Foster Wallace. It brings to light many aspects of his life I was unaware of, and there are great interview snippets I hadn’t read before (and I’ve read pretty much everything I could find on the [...]

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Book Publisher Suspends New Acquisitions – NYTimes.com

The publishing biz is in major trouble. I think the days of ‘big publishing’ by corporate media behemoths are coming to an end.

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Hey Sean, we’re going to go in here and see if we can find somebody who wants to adopt you as a pet.
That was me today, as we walked into Petsmart for some cat fud.

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Or is it?
As mentioned in an earlier post, I recently read David Markson’s The Last Novel, and I was deeply impressed. Markson has written a series (is ’series’ the right word? I don’t know) of—oh, let’s just call them novels—a series of novels that are more collections of literary trivia and anecdotes with the barest [...]

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The wind off the harbor makes the 30-degree ambient temperature feel like 22 degrees, according to Weather.com. To us, out for our morning walk and not having a proper thermometer, it just felt shockingly cold. It’s only November, after all. Not yet Thanksgiving, even.
The wisteria went from green to brown and leafless over night. The [...]

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I got an e-mail from a new Navy husband today:
My wife recently joined the Navy and is currently going to A-School. She wants me to move with her somewhere when she graduates but of course does not know where that somewhere is yet.
What is there really for a navy husband to do? Are there more [...]

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I have a new post up at Milspouse.com/blog. It’s another in my series on 2010: Norfolk Two.
Homesteading.

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There’s something I find oddly fascinating, yet scary, about eye surgery. The whole time I was reading this, my internal monologue was screaming, But it’s his eye!
navalgazing » Medical Oddity

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The sound of the bottles in the Samuel Adams Winter Classics collection clinking together in the back seat on the way home from the package store.

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[Note: My son Sean is the genius behind the title of this post. He thought my simple title of 'Reading' was lame and boring, apparently.]
Well, I’ve gotten a little bit behind in my book reviewing, here. Since September, I’ve read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem—which is the ass-kickingest piece of science fiction I’ve read since William Gibson’s [...]

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