Why You Should Start Christmas Planning In January Today, I want to talk about Christmas. Specifically, next Christmas and how you are going to pay for all the expenses that...
3 Ways Deployments Can Bring You Closer as a Couple Long-distance relationships get such a bad reputation, but I’ve met so many great military couples who have made them work...
How to Make the Most of the Holiday Season While Miles Apart Like so many military families this year, my military family faced some difficult decisions for the holidays. But, I want to...
Three Habits New Military Spouses Should Develop When I was a new Navy wife, coming straight from the Land of Oz, I didn’t know the first thing about the military lifestyle...
This is Why Commissary Shelves Are Often Empty Ever notice that commissary shelves are often mysteriously empty? Where are the people who add stuff to the shelves when they...
The 5 Stages of Commissary Shopping on Payday Oh, the commissary. We love you. We hate you. And mostly we're just afraid of you on or around the 1st and 15th of the month.
Military Lingo for New Military Spouses Remember your first day of foreign language class? That’s kind of how I felt when my husband came home from boot camp and...
Top 10 Things New Military Spouses Learn I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but marrying into the military is a bit different. The changes you face depend a lot on...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
