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 navy husbands out there? Is there anyway I can finish my degree while living with her on base or off base?
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I think it is the fear of the unknown that really makes me panic. Also with the Navy being majority men doesn’t exactly settle my stomach.
I am so glad I found you’re blog and I will continue to read it today during my free time.
Hope all is well.
Thank you,
Dan
My response to Dan was on the long side, so I’m not going to reprint it here. If you’d like to read it, though, I posted it here on the Contact Tom page.
Getting this e-mail makes this whole project—every post, every moment when I’ve wondered if there’s really any point to it beyond my own vanity—feel worthwhile to me. This is what blogs exist to do:
Communicate.
They’re about having one big conversation. This month’s Wired magazine has a short piece entitled Kill Your Blog (well, that’s the title in the magazine; they apparently changed it for the online version). It bemoans the pointlessness of maintaining a blog in a time when you’re competing with massively resourced sites like Engadget and the Huffington Post. But he might be missing the point.
What if you’re not competing with Engadget or the Huffington Post? What if you’re actually writing about something personal and relevant to a small(ish) group of readers? Then might a blog be worth your time?
If your goals as a blogger go beyond racking up page views, keep blogging.
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