“Any Nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.” ~Abraham Lincoln What do you think of when you think about Memorial Day? Do you think of enjoying a 3-day weekend? Do you think of the sales at shopping malls? Do you think of barbecues and the community pool opening […] Read more…
Top 10 Reasons Why I Don’t Feel As Old As I Am (Revisited)
As I mentioned yesterday, my birthday is this week. Last year I dedicated my birthday top 10 list to the reasons why I don’t feel as old as I am. And I had every intention of renewing that optimism by writing a Part 2 to that list today, but unforutnately, I couldn’t come up with 10 more […] Read more…
Top 10 You Know You’re a Mil Spouse When…
As military spouses we’ve grown accustomed to living a certain lifestyle, a lifestyle developed and honed through years of adaptations and mandatory training in independence, flexibility, and self-sufficiency. Our perspective of normal is skewed because we don’t know any other normal. Because of this unique way of life that we somehow consider normal, we tend to exhibit tell-tale signs […] Read more…
Top 10 Highlights of the MilBlog Conference
So here it is Tuesday again and time for a top 10 list. I contemplated forgoing a top 10 list to write about the hot topic of the week (well actually, the hot topic of the decade), but there isn’t anything I could write about Osama Bin Laden that hasn’t been written already in the […] Read more…
Top 10 Differences Between Spring Break Then and Spring Break Now
Last week was Spring Break. And because of my job as a teacher, it was the first year in a long time that I found myself getting really excited about a week off from school. In fact, the last time the words Spring Break made me so giddy was my senior year in college when my […] Read more…
Top 10 Celebrity Military Brats
In keeping with the theme of the Month of the Military Child, I thought I’d dedicate another top 10 list to military brats. Did you know that Tiger Woods was a military brat? So was Priscilla Presley. And Julianne Moore. And Christina Aguilera. There are a ton of famous people who were once military brats. So here are […] Read more…
