I wrote a follow-up post about military husbands for the Milspouse blog. The first one—‘Are Male Spouses Really “Doing Fine”?’—got a pretty good response. What I’m hoping to do is start a conversation about how to better support the military husbands out there. It’s a weird world, especially for those of us who are, and …
My new post is up at the Milspouse blog: Are Male Spouses Really ‘Doing Fine’? I get the sense sometimes that, because military husbands are in the minority, we get ignored. And when we are mentioned, it’s often in a dismissive way. Introductions to books about military spouse stuff offhandedly mention, for example, that the …
My latest Milspouse blog post is up. I’ve known for a long time that I needed to have a will drawn up, but, as usual, I put it off. Beyond needing a lawyer, I had no idea what was involved, and, hey, lawyers are expensive, aren’t they? After Sean was born, though, I couldn’t keep …
My latest Milspouse.com post is available: Champion of the Back Deck: We have indoor cats for a reason: we want to keep them safe. They’re less likely to get hit by a car, get fleas, get into fights, or get sick—in fact, I’m thinking about following the same policy with our son Sean.
My latest post, Ground Zero, is up at Milspouse.com. When we arrived we weren’t sure that what we were looking at was actually Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center. First we saw the PATH terminal and a fence. We couldn’t see the site itself until we walked across a footbridge that …
My new post, To Buy or not to Buy, is up at Milspouse.com. There’s a little voice in my head that keeps telling me buying a house is a lot like jumping into a pool: you don’t know if the water is quite warm enough, but the other swimmers say it is, and you dip …
