Family Tales

To My Son in Uniform
Very, very good set of essays from a former Marine to his recently enlisted son about life, love, and citizenship. The chapter on sex before marriage (”Your” Sex Life in Service) is one of the better arguments that I’ve ever seen for not only abstinence but monogamy after marriage as […]

How do you describe a “page turner” that doesn’t demand you read it all in one sitting?
This book poses an odd dilemma for me because there was literally no way that I was going to abandon this one once starting the first page, and yet I never felt the compulsion to read until […]

Just finished reading Mark Bowden’s Guests of the Ayatollah. Review here.