Music and Misogyny: Adventures in Local Rock Radio
I'm not a serious music fan the way my husband is; I have a decent idea of what I like, which is somewhat eclectic and wide-ranging, but I'm terrible at that Name-the-Band game, and even when I can...
View ArticleIn memory of a friend
One afternoon a few years ago, a helicopter doing a demonstration for the ROTC students crashed on campus. Anyone who was at Texas A&M at the time probably remembers it. At the time, I was a...
View ArticleI need to find a SAR team out here.
I really love writing for a living for a living. It's what I've wanted to do since I was in third grade. So far, I've been really lucky to have gotten contracts that let me write things that will help...
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Thank you, Neil Gaiman
Since I finally skidded sideways into the 21st century and acquired a phone capable of such incredible feats as accessing Twitter, I've developed a bad habit of using it to read articles at idle...
View ArticleWhy I miss working for veterans
Back at The Funeral Home, both of the funeral directors I worked under were Army veterans. Sharing an office with the two of them was one of the best work experiences I have ever had; working for and...
View ArticleCurrent and Upcoming Projects (Hopefully)
I'm here, I'm here. Month-long absences followed by random re-blogging of Neil Gaiman's Tumblr and plugs for my other blogging projects are not quite the version of "more regular updates" that I had in...
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A Story from my Husband
Evidently, there are no donkeys in Uganda (readers, feel free to confirm or deny that information).When my husband was in Iraq back in 2009, he found himself one day sharing a guard tower with a pair...
View ArticleAuto-Immune Disease Cheat Codes
I'm pretty terrible at managing my Crohn's Disease. I continue eating spicy food, skipping meals, occasionally overeating, not managing stress properly, and not getting enough rest. Somehow it mostly...
View ArticleWhat might have been?
I sometimes wonder what it might be like if I could exchange emails with an alternate-universe version of myself, just so we could both indulge our curiosity about what life would be like if certain...
View ArticleStuff About Zombies
One of the independent projects I'm trying to carve out enough free time to really make some progress on is a "zombie culture" blog, to be titled Infected. It began as a column for Examiner.com, but I...
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Sandstorms and Bonsai
Yesterday, in the middle of a west Texas sandstorm, my husband and I bought a pair of bonsai trees. This life brings us to some really strange cultural intersections at times, which is one of the...
View ArticleHelp Wanted - I need feedback!
As promised a few posts ago, here is a quick summary of what I'm currently working on and what I would dearly love to have the time and funding to work on. I'm posting the first list because I feel...
View ArticleUs vs. Them Yet Again
A friend of mine posted a rather colorful rant this morning on Facebook related to the recently published 2010 photos of a few U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead Afghan insurgents. I've heard...
View ArticleArmed and Informed
I just finished writing a brief guidebook for newcomers to concealed carry (I'll post a link to it here as soon as one is available). In the course of my research for that project, I ran across the...
View ArticleJourney in an Airport
I love travelling, and I love flying, but I hate air travel.We like to think of travel as such a liberating experience, but in its modern incarnation it seems oddly restrictive, forcing the traveler to...
View ArticleNow accepting random ideas!
I had a terrible case of writer's block the other day, so I turned to my reliably random Facebook friends with the following:"Now accepting random ideas. Go!"In order of posting, I got these...
View Article#1 Squirrel, Strawberry, Shower
My prompt for this one, courtesy of SAR canine handler and all-around awesome person Vicki, was:Squirrel - strawberry - shower."Warm water pelted down around me, easing the tension in my shoulders and...
View Article#2: Laser Guided Penguins
My prompt for this story - thanks to lifelong friend and rocket scientist Bryan (also known as the husband of Just Thinking blogger Kristen) - was:Laser guided penguins."This is what you came to see,...
View ArticleArticle 6
Dear Army,You are making it very difficult to uphold my policy against whiny/angry social media posts. I love a challenge as much as the next girl, but there are limits.Have a lovely weekend (except...
View Article#3 Cholula hot sauce scented shower gel that doesn't burn your eyes?!?
Today's prompt came from hot sauce aficionado and raid leader Jon:Cholula hot sauce scent shower gel that doesn't burn your eyes?!?Dr. Romero looked up in alarm as Dr. Brooks shambled into the break...
View Article#4 Porcupines and denim...
This came from SAR teammate and friend Jennifer:Porcupines and denim..."Do wild porcupines like peanut butter?" the freckled girl in the green dress asked, belatedly remembering to raise her hand....
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Free Shiny Things! No, really...
Normally, I don't blog about anything that even remotely sounds like an ad, but my friend Kat posted something on Facebook earlier today that I think is actually worth sharing. If you sign up on...
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Accidentally, On Purpose
My husband is stuck in the field, standing guard duty for the third weekend in a row. Neither of us is pleased about that, but at least we got more than fifteen minutes' notice this week, so I guess...
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Rain in the Desert
It has rained for two days now, and the rain brought with it unseasonably cool weather and a beautiful display of clouds cascading over the mountains. I went out for a late-night snack tonight, less...
View ArticleGoodbye's too good a word, babe...
...so I'll just say fare thee well.Well, this is going to be my last post here at One Day at a Time. This blog has been the chronicle of a period of my life which I never expected to end, but which has...
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