The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

I want to say thank you to everyone who offered suggestions on how we could spend our last weekend of the Year of Bliss. I think we touched on each of the ideas, at least thematically.
On Saturday, we spent our morning the way we pretty much always do—did—dammit. We got up with Sean and ate [...]

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The last weekend of the Year of Bliss totally snuck up on me. This morning, John told me via Twitter to enjoy this weekend because next week is “gonna hit like a ton of bricks,” and I had no idea what he was talking about. I thought he was referring to a project we’re working [...]

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A little more love from Terri Barnes: Military Husbands > CinCHouse.com.

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My newest post is up on the Milspouse blog. It’s about my effort to organize my household tasks. This will be an ongoing effort:
With a bunch of index cards and a binder clip, you have all the good things you’d get from a notebook with the added ability to rearrange the cards, remove cards you [...]

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We opened up a little more of the house to Seanzilla, this morning. He’s becoming more and more confident in his cruising skillz, so we’ve expanded his terrain to include the library. It also helps that he’s learned how to handle books without tearing their covers off.
While he was exploring in there, Danielle noticed that [...]

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I’ve been doing a lot of interviews, lately, and a lot of linking to those interviews, but these stories are more about the larger issue of military husbands, and they deserve the exposure.
Spouse Calls: Male spouses need friends, too | Stars and Stripes.
I’m just thankful for the exposure. So, welcome to the blog to those [...]

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The Mideast edition of Stars and Stripes has a story on military husbands that I’m quoted in.
It’s a great article, somewhat in spite of my quotes (I wasn’t feeling very articulate for most of the interview, apparently). It’s very even-handed and thorough.

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A couple weeks ago, I did an interview with Terri Barnes, the Spouse Calls blogger and columnist for Stars and Stripes.
She has written a blog post and a column on the topic of military husbands, and there’s more to come.
Military husbands have been getting a lot of attention, lately, which I obviously think is great. [...]

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We recently visited our local Barnes & Noble on a dreary day with every intention of stimulating the economy. Not long ago, we could spend $50-75 on a trip to the bookstore with barely an “aren’t-we-bad-yes-we-are” grin on our faces.
But on that particular visit, we walked out empty handed. I couldn’t justify a single purchase. [...]

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The New Yorker has a masterful piece on David Foster Wallace and his attempts to write the followup to Infinite Jest. He called the book The Pale King, and Little, Brown is going to publish it in 2010, even though it’s incomplete.
D.T. Max’s piece—The Unfinished—answers a lot of questions about Wallace’s final year, covering some [...]

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