The Coronavirus Didn’t End My Career
Real estate came to the rescue. At the end of 2019, like most entrepreneurs, I said that 2020 was going...
Military Spouses Taking Over: Why I’m Running for Office in 2022
I want to start by saying that I don’t have all of the answers. I’m just a Navy veteran and...
Back to School: What IEP Parents Need to be Doing Right Now
The biggest thing that I was not prepared for when the Coronavirus pandemic shut down our schools? Becoming a teacher...
Military Spouses Kept a Soccer Team Fed All Season
Before we moved to Jacksonville, I thought I knew what a Title 1 school is -- by definition, a Title...
My Hysterectomy Was Great
“How do you feel about that?” the young resident doctor asked my husband. Here we were, sitting in a doctor’s...
Hey, Tricare, Keep Your Promise
As a breastfeeding mom, when my provider told me that Tricare would pay for my breast pump AND a small...
Tricare’s Open Enrollment Policy is Going to Kill Someone
When we moved to Jacksonville, Florida, I was deep into the first trimester of an extremely high-risk pregnancy. Since our...
Beyond the WIFI Password: How to Get Your Kids to Clean Up Their Crap
If your family has school-aged members, you’ve finally found time to get your house back in order now that the...
To ICE or Not To ICE
Military families: Have you heard about ICE? (And no, I’m not talking about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement!) I’m talking about...
Social Media Influencer as a Career for Military Spouses: Is it Too Good to be True?
If you follow accounts on social media that have a lot of followers, you may find that most of them...
From Bangles to Going Halfsies: What to Wear to Your Next Remote Meeting
According to Telecommunity Trend Data published by Global Workplace Analytics: Work-from-home positions have grown 140% since 2005, which is nearly...
Spouse Confessions: I Was an Online Troll
If you use the internet ever, you run into people like my “former self” all the time. I say former...
Postpartum Reality: You’re Probably Doing Too Much Too Soon
Congratulations! You just birthed a tiny little human that took months to grow. And now that this tiny little person...
My MilKid Wants a Job – How Do I Help?
The independence of 16 is something most children look forward to, but for military children, that same independence often comes...
High Risk Health Condition at the Military Treatment Facility?
How to advocate for the best care. As a military spouse, one of the first decisions we are asked to...
Don’t Forget About the Spouses with Deployed Partners Because We. Are. Not. Fine.
As military spouses, we all dread the D-word: Deployment. And even though our lives are turned upside down and everything...
Finding the Perfect Workplace Culture as a Military Spouse
If you listen to a lot of the advice given to military spouses when it comes to finding employment, you’ll...
What Can Military Families “Take Home” from Marie Kondo’s New Netflix Series?
As military spouses, when our husbands or wives announce they finally put in for orders, our minds drift in one...
