Military life is not always easy and it’s often very lonely.  I can’t even count on all of my fingers and toes how many times I felt alone and wondered if everyone else felt this way sometimes.  We all need someone to understand us at times and that is exactly what you will find here.

From my own personal snafus, to the light-hearted stories of how funny things can be (in retrospect), this is where I turn to when I need to know that I’m not alone in this crazy life we lead.

Being married to the military is not always easy and sometimes we just need a friend to say, “I’ve been there too.”

Deployment Series:

• Deployment Series: Coping With The Dreaded D-word
• Deployment Series: There’s A Season For Everything In Life
• Deployment Series: Our First-Ever NTC
• Deployment Series: Deployment Timeline
• Deployment Series: Expectations
• Deployment Series: You Are Not Alone
• Deployment Series: Do I Stay or Do I Go?
• Deployment Series: This Deployment Belongs to You

 

Funny Deployment Stories:

• Proof Good Samaritans are the Stuff of Legends
• Greatest Hits: If My Life Were a Movie, I’d Want Tina Fey to Play Me
• Funny Deployment Stories: Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will
• Funny Deployment Stories: Misadventures in Deployment
• Funny Deployment Stories: TAD
• Funny Deployment Stories: The Lighter Side of Deployment
• Funny Deployment Stories: If My LIfe Were A Movie, I’d Want Tina Fey To Play Me

 

Marine Corps Related:

• Marine Corps Social Mores vs Real Life
• The Thirty Seconds That Defined My Life: My Thoughts on Memorial Day
• When “See You Soon” Really Means Goodbye
• Sometimes Having Your Spouse Home is Exactly Like a Bed of Roses
• Love is NOT All You Need: The Truth About Marriage
• Once, I Held My Breath for an Entire Year
• A Year Ago
• Dress Blues
• Military Spouses, Today is NOT Your Day, It is Veterans Day
• Marines and Their Balls
• The Life Lessons You Learn When Drunk Marines Come To Visit
• I Am Lucky: A 9/11 Reflection
• I Might Be Damaged And You Might Be Too
• Memorial Day
• I Am Not Strong
• Greatest Hits: If My Life Were a Movie, I’d Want Tina Fey to Play Me
• Greatest Hits: Stuck In the Middle
• You Don’t Have The Toughest Job in The Corps
• Remember That Time The USMC Ruined Everything?
• Greatest Hits: Reservists Face a Broken System
• What Makes a Good Marine
• Please Learn From Our Snafu
• Random Memory From The Boys Deployment
• The Military and My Marriage: Difficult Choices
• Stuck In The Middle: My Weird Life as a Reservists Wife
• I’m proud of my Marine
• If only I had common sense! No, I mean USMC Sense!

 

General Military Life:

• The Lessons We Can’t Unlearn
• The Thirty Seconds That Defined My Life: My Thoughts on Memorial Day
• Online Communities and Military Spouses: How a New Generation is Bridging the Gap
• When “See You Soon” Really Means Goodbye
• Sometimes Having Your Spouse Home is Exactly Like a Bed of Roses
• Love is NOT All You Need: The Truth About Marriage
• Once, I Held My Breath for an Entire Year
• A Year Ago
• Proof Good Samaritans are the Stuff of Legends
• Dress Blues
• Military Spouses, Today is NOT Your Day, It is Veterans Day
• Marines and Their Balls
• Dear Congress: The Clock is Ticking and a Nation Hangs in the Balance
• Perfection on Paper
• A Military Wife’s Guide to Having Surgery
• The Life Lessons You Learn When Drunk Marines Come To Visit
• I Am Lucky: A 9/11 Reflection
• Quit Complaining About the Sears Heroes at Home Gift Registry, I Don’t Even Qualify
• I Might Be Damaged And You Might Be Too
• I Remember
• Memorial Day
• I chose to live above hate
• I Am Not Strong
• What Is A Military Wife?
• Greatest Hits: If My Life Were a Movie, I’d Want Tina Fey to Play Me
• Greatest Hits: Please Learn From Our Snafu
• Greatest Hits: Stuck In the Middle
• What I Can’t Let Go Of
• Am I Really War Bride?
• A Ball Of Memories: One Wife Recounts Her Most Memorable Ball Experience
• Greatest Hits: Reservists Face a Broken System
• Greatest Hits: Perceptions
• Who Will We Be?
• Don’t Be THAT Spouse
• What Makes a Good Marine
• Who I Once Was- a 9/11 reflection
• Perceptions
• Please Learn From Our Snafu
• Random Memory From The Boys Deployment
• Guest Post: How We Can Help Keep Pets in the Military Family
• I’m proud of my Marine
• If only I had common sense! No, I mean USMC Sense!
• 14 things you should never say to a military wife