“Honey,” my retired Navy husband woke me this morning with a steaming cup of coffee — a sweet routine he started since he began working from home last March — “I just transferred money into your account because you’re twenty bucks in the red. … please … just don’t buy any more stock, okay?”
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Milspouses’ best-kept secret: The upside of loneliness
This morning, I peered at my baggy, blood-shot eyes in the bathroom mirror. It had been a rough night. Thanks to wild fluctuations in my peri-menopausal hormones, which are apparently in the throes of death, my hair was a rat’s nest of sweaty tangles…
Learning to lose, to win
This past month, we all bore witness to the horrific extremes that some people will go to in order to avoid losing…[F]or most of us, personal success or failure is not gauged by national elections, the stock market report, or the Super Bowl. Winning and losing happens in small moments throughout our daily lives…
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“Insider Threat”: Don’t throw the honorable out with the bathwater
I’ve been disheartened that the idiocy of a few has damaged the reputation of 1.3 million active duty and 18 million veterans. As a Navy spouse whose husband served proudly for 28 years, I know that “guilt by association” affects the morale of military family members, too.