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 …