Bloom Where You Are Planted

I’ve never had a garden. I try to avoid using always and never but I think it’s true. Blaming our itinerant life is tempting, and that is a factor, but many military families have gardens: on base, in rental homes, yard or no yard. We’ve moved 17 times in 35 years. I won’t bore you […]

Hey Valerie it’s Me James

I’m not a bad friend; I won’t seduce your husband or talk behind your back, which is, I’m aware, a very low bar, but I’m also not a great one either. I spend a lot of time in my head, some of it spent thinking about my friends, but very little action comes of it. […]

Get A Job

It’s time to JOIN THE WORKFORCE (temporarily) which is the only kind of adult work experience I’ve had. I sat down last year and figured out that in the 35 years Lee was in the Marine Corps, I had 18 paying jobs. At some point, I’d thrown down enough blocks of sod (8 to be […]