Why-you-have-to-go-and-make-things-so-domesticated?
“Shit, girl, I know, I got a red fox and that sumbitch is always escaping.” (Can I just say that most days I love Florida, but some days I realllllllly love Florida.) The woman who said that had to say some variation of that same sentence four times before it dawned on me that she ... Continue Reading.... Comments (2)------------------------------------------
2013 Parenting
2013 Parenting: 6 a.m. Wake-up 6:17 Hit snooze for the second time 6:30 Get up, make bed, let the dog out, make the coffee, wake the kids 6:36 Scream upstairs “If you don’t get out of bed now you’re going to be late and miss the bus! And I do NOT want to drag ... Continue Reading.... Comments (5)------------------------------------------
New York Times’ At War Blog – “War on the Heels of a Wedding”
Whew! It’s been a crazy-fun time in el globo de Sanderlin. I’m not sure if that actually means anything in Spanish, but it sounds right to me. I just got back from a family trip to Costa Rica and while I was gone this essay I wrote appeared on the New York Times’ At War ... Continue Reading.... Comments Off------------------------------------------
My response to HuffPo “lavish” story
You can read my response to the Huffington Post story about how the military has been “lavished” with money lately, here: http://www.bluestarfam.org/blog/view/context-is-critical Continue Reading.... Comments Off------------------------------------------
Taking a beating…
Mommy and Daddy are fighting again. It started as a normal enough fight, one about money. It’s always about money. But then it got ugly. They started yelling, and threatening. Little Brother and Little Sister happened to be nearby. Daddy grabbed them and held a knife to their throats. Daddy threatened to cut them, ... Continue Reading.... Comments (2)------------------------------------------
Drone Parenting
Hi, I’m Rebekah. I’m a ‘drone parent’. (The picture above is a ‘helicopter parent’ — my sworn enemy.) I watch my kids from afar. I do not engage in their every activity. I let them argue with other children and I don’t try to settle the arguments. I let them fall down, sometimes getting ... Continue Reading.... Comments Off------------------------------------------
Tag, I’m it!
…but I’m a slow runner, so I’m used to it. My friend Lisa Cullen, the brilliant author of the brilliant novel Pastors’ Wives, asked me to participate in this little exercise in navel gazing. Never one to turn down an opportunity to check out my distended-from-three-pregnancies, still-pierced-because-I-was-in-college-in-the-’90s belly button, I accepted. Basically, at some time ... Continue Reading.... Comments Off------------------------------------------
Missing (in)Action
Yes – this is for real. Today, one day before Valentine’s Day, the House Armed Services Committee invited the Pentagon’s top brass on a date to talk about sequestration — and then stood them up. (This was what the room looked like at about two hours into the meeting, toward the end. The screenshots were ... Continue Reading.... Comments Off------------------------------------------
On CNN.com today
Molly Blake and I wrote an opinion piece (though it is completely factual) for CNN.com today about the disaster waiting to happen, and in some cases already happening, should Congress not step up and prevent sequestration. You can read it here. We couldn’t go into the second and third order effects of sequestration because of ... Continue Reading.... Comments (2)------------------------------------------
Separate but … well, just separate
For weeks now I’ve been mulling over the issues raised by Ashley Broadway, the lesbian Officer’s wife who was denied membership in the Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses. I have literally written seven very different versions of this post trying to ferret out my thoughts on the matter. On the one hand, I get why ... Continue Reading.... Comments (16)------------------------------------------
