By Julia Hayden
Over the last decade - or perhaps even longer - all of the adventure, the fun and the excitement of traveling by air has been removed with cruel and surgical precision. Slowly, slowly, all of the frivolous extras have been chipped away, or become expensive add-ons. A …
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| From Julia Hayden: I wrote the original version of this post, late in 2002 for the milblog that I contributed to then - and discovered that the readers loved the accounts of my eccentric family. This is reposted in honor of Dad, who died very suddenly and without warning on … |
Now and again while living overseas, we had a chance to participate in Christmas events as practiced locally: in Greece, Christmas was not much at all, in comparison to Easter - which in the Greek Orthodox tradition is huge: a week of observances, services …
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My mother was fairly adventurous about food and recipes, back in the day. One of her culinary adventure involved a subscription to the Time-Life series "Foods of the World." While we never really got into experimenting with Moroccan cuisine, the more accessible and familiar varieties got a good …
A year or so ago I had to explain the whole concept of ‘the full Griswold' to a friend of advanced years and whose taste in movies tends more toward Turner Classics than National Lampoon; but once introduced to the concept, she agreed how very …
The trouble that I have always had with the traditional turkey and all the side dishes - the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, bread stuffing of any ilk, the gravy and the cranberry relish, and the eternal pearl onions in cheese sauce peculiar to my own family table at …
My daughter and I noticed the tower which crowned a wooded hill off of the Nacogdoches Road, almost as soon as we moved into a San Antonio neighborhood - mostly because to our eyes it seemed quite normal, natural . . . expected, even. We had lived for almost …
View MoreBy Julia Hayden aka Sgt Mom at The Daily Brief
Yea on many (well, not actually that many) years ago when I was living in the female enlisted dorm at an Air Force base in Japan, another resident and friend had been gifted by a relative with a …
Once upon a time when I was still a corporate admin/office manager drudge, I worked for an enterprise which had a small office in Carousel Court, at the intersection of Nacogdoches and North New Braunfels. The best thing about this office - after the regular …