Here it was… year 3 of being in Japan for Thanksgiving while my husband was sailing the seas. The previous two years had NOT been ...

It was our second year in the country and, much to my dismay, it wouldn’t be our last. After the first Thanksgiving had been such ...

We had moved to our new overseas duty station approximately 6 months ago. In that time, Keith had been deployed twice, my grandmother began her ...

There we were… at VBS. I was a leader (wrangler) of a small group of kids. I barely had control. And there was my kid. ...

Around the beginning of the summer our son came up to me and asked if he could have “a pish”. I said, “a what?” and ...

I heard myself utter the impassioned plea, “Can you please just do what I am asking withoutoffering a better way to do it?” I was ...