Notes from the Officer's Club

When I was younger, my dad and I used to quote movies to each other and then try to guess which movie it was from - he still occasionally tr...

In order to celebrate Women's History Month, one of the units put together an hour-long presentation.  I was one of the few people who s...

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion   Didion wrote this book after her husband's death, and uses it to detail her first year ...

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   After I read Half of a Yellow Sun , I saw a few reviews that compared Adichie to Chinua Ach...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard   This play was recommended to me by another person in the company.   He, too, plan...

The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez   I enjoyed A Feather on the Breath of God quite a bit so after searching Amazon, this novel seemed...

Remember how back in the beginning of the deployment I talked about all my random klutziness? Well, it hasn't stopped by any means. In...