P.C.S. aka “Permanent Change of Station”: Isn’t it funny how something so simple—a single phrase, the arrangement of three seemingly harmless letters—can completely throw you...
Here is a little known military life truth: Making friends and keeping them is no easy task. We all know how it feels to...
It's that time of year again. We know it well. It starts around mid-May and goes through late summer. Permanent Change of Station (PCS)...
Several weeks ago, I came home from work to find my husband grinning mischievously in the kitchen. Never a good sign.
He played coy for...
Won any awards lately? Any big promotions on the horizon? Eh, me either girl, you’re in good company here. It turns out we're not...
Dear Husband,
It's been a long three years. In these three years we've had two babies, bought one house, and you've deployed at least 30...
It’s time for the kids to bounce off the walls, slide on the floor, and hang off the ceiling, but they can’t jump on...
When I fell for him in college -- his feet were bare, he had a beard and a crazy mop of hair – I...
It was perfectly planned. My husband and I would take our youngest son with us, stop at my grandma’s house, stay in a hotel...
When I was a little girl, I used to call the American flag the "Pledge-a-llegiance." My grandfather and I would spend countless road trips...
We live near a large Army base in South Carolina. When we first moved here almost three years ago, we were excited at the...
Many of us have experienced that moment; you're casually chatting with another military spouse, and she uses some crazy acronym you have never heard...
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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...
