It’s summer PCS season, when 40% of the 400,000 military and DoD civilian moves take place each year. This time brings back memories of our family’s final military move in May of 2017. It was our eleventh in 23 years of marriage, and it was pretty much like all the rest — a stressful experience…
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Saved by the bolognese
From the bright sunlight that glowed through my closed eyelids, it was a beautiful morning. But I couldn’t get up and face another day of this unending monotony. I pulled the pillow over my face, and yearned for sleep to deliver me. An hour later, I’d given up. I made the bed, decided it wasn’t…
A dose of dirt
I’ve got dirt packed under my fingernails. There’s a blister the size of Delaware on my thumb. My face is sunburned in a distinctive raccoon pattern around my sunglasses. I’m walking with slight limp, thanks to the pain in my knee from too much squatting. This happens to me every spring. As soon winter gives…
Author of columnists’ bible says Meat and Potatoes of Life ‘blends belly-shaking laughs with poignancy’
A decade ago, after a humor essay I wrote on marriage somehow got published in the Washington Post, I thought, very naively, “Hey, maybe I could be a newspaper columnist!” This flash of ignorant brilliance was not deterred by the realization that I had no idea what being a newspaper columnist entailed. I was published…