February 10, 2012

Sig Christenson blogs about rediscovering comfort

Back home, in bed this morning with the comforter well over my shoulders, almost over my head and the cat at my side, I thought of something we all said in the Iraqi desert.

It’s all good.

Sig Christenson

Sig Christenson

“Meow,” Alcat called, almost mumbling – which isn’t unusual. Despite all my efforts to teach him good manners, he’ll talk even when eating Friskies Mariner’s Catch, his favorite.

Things are indeed good, starting with the central heating system in my home and the hot gourmet coffee brewed as I slept. Life in this old house is so much better than what we had while with the Texas Army National Guard at FOB Ghazni in December, or the big base at Balad where these past few years you walked a half-mile to drink Green Beans coffee, or at the Park Palace Hotel in Kabul and that dinky space heater – the one I had to push three inches from my bed so I could stay warm every night this icy winter.

Read the rest of the story at the San Antonio Express-News