For a community that is constantly packing up, turning over, and unpacking somewhere completely different, there sure is a heavy blanket of standard operating procedures covering every nook and cranny of military …
Topic: Goal Setting
The Uniform We Wear: A Letter From One Military Spouse to Another
Dear Military Spouse, You are doing a great job. It took me a long time to figure out those words … the words I longed to hear on my hardest days. I …
Self-Improvement Secret Weapon: The Five-Year Plan
Military spouses must frequently make personal sacrifices in support of their service members. But an outdated presumption persists that spousal support and personal pursuits are mutually exclusive concepts. So, what’s the secret …
MilSpouse Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Business
My dad’s career advice has always been simple and straightforward. “Find something you love to do and then find someone to pay you for it,” he told me often. His belief was …
Ushering in 2021 — Can We Have a “Do-Over”?
To say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. We were bombarded with one thing after another: a pandemic, civil unrest, division in our country, a history-making election — and that’s on a …
Setting Practical Goals for 2021
If 2020 was a calendar (which, yes, I recognize it was), it was full of ripped, tear-stained, scratched-out pages, that were then covered in white-out, rewritten on, then scratched out again. When …