Life

People tend to say to you outside of the military community, "you knew what you were getting into." I come from… Read More

Waiting for the end of a deployment can be an exciting yet painstakingly nerve-racking time... By the time the last… Read More

Surviving deployment. It is a skill that we, the military spouse, are always trying to master, it seems. We asked… Read More

In the sixth grade, I was introduced to a vocabulary that would become a new rhetoric for the world in… Read More

When I went to first grade, my mom had to bribe me to make friends. She bribed me with the… Read More

The Deployment Curse. We've all heard about it. Many of us have experienced it. And most of us have even… Read More

Whether you’re PCSing from one coast to the other, or one country to another, there are some things you can… Read More

On the face of things, my husband and I are a perfectly ordinary couple. To look at a photo of… Read More

By Erin Whitehead It's not because non-military-affiliated folks don't care, or that they are being insensitive... It's just that they… Read More

Funny story: I live in the desert. We weren't *supposed* to be here. When my husband got selected for school… Read More