Life

My husband has been in the Navy since December, 2013. Somehow, we’ve gotten lucky and he has yet to go...

Ah, we LOVE homecoming. We have all been there -- the fervor of preparation, worry, anticipation and excitement…it can be overwhelming....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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