“Your Kids Can Eat at Home,” My Dad Said—So When the Waiter Returned, I Stood Up – The Archivist

emphasis—that I’d just completed a six-month deployment coordinating anti-piracy operations across three maritime theaters while simultaneously managing a diplomatic crisis that never made the news because we’d handled it correctly, she’d said, “That’s nice, dear,” in the same tone she used when I told her I’d had a sandwich for lunch. Then she’d pivoted continue reading …