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The holiday season has drawn to a close.  We (the military community) have been patiently waiting for Congress' return.  We...

I knew something was wrong as soon as I struggled to bench press 85 pounds. I remember thinking to myself,...

Is one of your resolutions to eat healthier? So is mine! And 40 of my friends have pledged to try...

Watch as Babette Maxwell, the founder of Military Spouse magazine, speaks out on behalf of veterans and their families in...

Update: The House of Representatives voted to pass the Bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2013. Next, it will go to...

  Recently, I was asked to define what 'empowerment' meant to me personally.  It's amazing, isn't it, how one word...

To get into the holiday spirit, our editorial staff here at Military Spouse took a popular Christmas carol and changed...

I can still tell you the exact holiday traditions we did when I was growing up. Thanksgiving was always kind...

  I don't know about you, but I'm not a Black Friday shopper. Between the tryptophan-induced Thanksgiving haze and the "shopping professionals"...

Turkeys are thawing in a bath of cold water, pies are baking in the oven, family members are arriving at...

Get out the elastic waist bands and over-sized tee-shirts... Thanksgiving, and all of the delicious comfort food that surround this...

Just like any other year, 2015 has presented challenges for the military family. We asked our incredible Facebook community what...

Stability.  Stability is not a word we use much in the military.  We move.  Our spouses deploy.  We make new...

A headline broke yesterday that concerned many military families, including my own. SpouseBuzz reported that the roughly 180 commissary locations...

As I lie in bed and anticipate the early morning sound of the alarm; a wakeup call familiar to families...

This week, three of our MSOYS: 2011 AFI Military Spouse of the Year Bianca Strzalkowsi, 2012 AFI Military Spouse of...

I was at my friend's birthday party recently, sitting at a table with some of my friends, and the conversation...

I met my husband when I was 15 years old. Our fist encounter went a little like this: I thought...