Remember the story about AirTran removing a screaming child and her parents from a flight to Boston? I don’t know about you other parents out there, but that story terrified me, mainly because I didn’t know how Sean would behave on his first plane ride. I had horrible visions of headlines reading
Airline Makes Emergency Landing
Removes [...]
Our years in the Navy have exposed us to our fair share of interesting neighbors. There was the guy in Navy housing who would haul our trash from our backyard to the curb every trash day and occasionally bring us a fish he’d speared from his kayak. Then there was the woman who lived with [...]
Do you have a digital camera? Do you store your pictures on your family computer? How about home movies? E-mails from your deployed spouse?
Now, do you keep a backup of the hard drive that stores all of it?
The other night I was watching a movie online via Netflix’s really cool Watch Instantly feature. In the [...]
Every once in a while something comes along in your life that makes you reevaluate things: how you spend your time, how you keep your house, your transportation, your budget….
After Sean was born we went through a honeymoon period where we seemed to have tons of extra cash. With a newborn in the house we [...]
Danielle and I just bought a new bright-red high-tech three-wheeled stroller for Sean because we try to go for a walk every day. Trust me. We needed it. Newport was founded in 1639, and I think some of the sidewalks are almost as old as the city. Some are concrete, some are brick, and some [...]
Ah, nothing like the immortal words of Austin Powers to kick things off, right?
I never know how to make these biographical summaries interesting, so I’m just going to dive right in and see where we wind up:
My wife Danielle is a Navy lieutenant, and I’m a freelance writer, which is quite possibly the perfect career [...]
