I met one of my new neighbors while out for a walk one morning. Well into her nineties, she was out working in her...
Being a military kid is hard! You might not have a lot of choice in where you live or what you do. There are...
The first time I remember my dad being gone was during a year-long deployment to South Korea when I was in the second grade....
It started with a boo-boo. She face-planted off a Costco bottle of laundry detergent. Blood oozed from her lip and tears poured from her...
I consider myself a well-seasoned military spouse. My salt and pepper roots are not just owed to genetics but also in part to having...
People often ask me how I do it. How do I survive a deployment with two kids? How can I train for a marathon...
Two years after my husband and I were married, we faced our first deployment. We didn't have any children yet, so it was just...
My husband and I joke that when we got married, I owned four of our kids and he owned one, now together we own...
I was a young college student when I met my husband. I didn’t have any experience with the military and was hesitant to dive...
We all have certain memories and moments that we will never forget. I remember where I was on 9/11. I remember my wedding day...
In the words of Beyoncé, “All the single ladies, all the single ladies, now put your hands up!”
Except in our case, he liked it,...
Deployment really brings out the best in us . . . said no military spouse ever.
I don’t know about you, but when my husband...
Military Lifestyle
Normalized Overwhelm
Over the Edge
I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
