Life

The Year I Watched Gilmore Girls and Learned Just To Be ME

While talking with a young friend recently, she lamented how little she'd accomplished during the year her husband was deployed.… Read More

20 Tips – How to be a Good Tenant

From vabeachlawgroup.com "Combo spoiler alert and disclaimer: a Virginia landlord-tenant lawyer is writing this. I know that my profession gives me… Read More

Documenting Deployment: History in the Making

Human nature is quite perplexing. The old saying, “you never recognize a good thing until it’s gone,” seems to be… Read More

Post-Traumatic Stress: When It Starts To Hurt Your Family

Last year, our family had the most magical Christmas: the blankets of fresh snow, bright lights and merry songs filling… Read More

Coping With Death: Just Another Day in America

There has been so much death lately. There is war and so many of the people we know and love are… Read More

Dear Dad: A Tribute to Military Fathers

Dear Dad, Today is Father’s Day. It’s a day we are supposed to spoil our dads, or the men who… Read More

How to Survive Deployment When You Have Nothing Left to Give

By Jo My Gosh! Deployment is hard. It’s draining—physically, emotionally, mentally. It’s hard to be separated from your partner and… Read More

10 Hilarious Ways to Count Down Deployment

Whew! You did it. The despairingly stomach-churning deployment goodbye is done. You’ve made a serious dent in your Costco-sized tissue… Read More

35 Things Military Spouses NEVER Say

Get a few seasoned spouses who are able to laugh at all the crazy, wonderful things we sometimes encounter in… Read More

We Don’t Want Children and That’s Perfectly Okay

I can remember being in high school and thinking “Yeah, maybe I’ll have kids someday. It’s what grown-ups do.” By… Read More