Unsolicited Advice You Should NEVER Give to a Milspouse
"As a bride new to the Marine Corps, at first you may feel strange among the military, but with the ...
A National Spouses’ Day Thank You to My Husband
I hunched forward in my chair, figuring if I made myself seem smaller, no one would notice me or force ...
3 Ways You Can Avoid The House-Buying Headache
As I sit here typing I can hear Chip and Joanna discussing how a little shiplap will fix everything and ...
15 Years With One Company?!? Yes!
"I moved up while moving around." I AM A MILITARY SPOUSE WHO HAS MOVED (A LOT) WITH MY JOB! As ...
15 Charities We Should ALL Support in 2018
Giving back. It's something we all strive to do, but trying to find the best charity or non-profit to support ...
Sometimes We Are Just Not Okay…and That’s Okay
Sometimes, I’m not okay. I’m not ashamed or afraid to admit it. Too often, when we struggle – and I mean ...
Adoption 101: The Breakdown of Resources
This is the third installment in my series on adoption for military families. In the first installment, we talked about ...
Everything You Need to Know about the Government Shutdown
Last Friday at midnight, barring an agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties in Congress, the United States government effectively ...
Do you have…the itch to move?
This morning, I walked back into my house with the dog and felt a familiar yearning in the pit of ...
Spouse Confessions: I Am Weary
Editors Note: This piece was incredibly difficult for the writer to finish. In fact, they almost decided not to submit ...
I Hate My J-O-B!
When I come home from work and say, “I hate my job," that elicits two responses from my spouse. He’ll say, ...
12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Travel and accommodations were provided by Warner Bros. Pictures. 12 Strong, from Warner Bros. Pictures, will release on January 19, ...
Look Ahead to Climb the Ladder
Like other military families, we moved every three years or so. Once we would get to a new location, it ...
Post-deployment: The Expectations, the Reality, and the Growth
They’re home. After days, weeks, months, or years of paper chains, calendar cross-offs, or your 400th empty diet Dr. Pepper ...
Why Now is a Good Time to Review Your Military Life Insurance
By Erica Grado, for USBA SPONSORED You made your resolutions, you watched the ball drop and the New Year has ...
I Met the Talent Behind 12 Strong! Here’s what they had to say about us…
Note: the movie 12 Strong releases on January 19. Travel and accommodations were provided by Warner Bros. Pictures. Many military ...
Life at 40 With a Baby, and Another on the Way
My husband and I are expecting our sixth child. And I'm 40. We had always known that we wanted a ...
Enter to Win a Signed Copy of Firefly Cove in this Exclusive Giveaway!
From the internationally bestselling author of Miramar Bay comes a deeply emotional novel that explores the challenges of living, the ...
