Last week was my first anniversary with my husband. Not the anniversary of the day when I talked my parents into spending too much money on a party, though. Rather, it was our first real anniversary -- the first one we have actually earned.

One year ago last week...

"Her only question was 'what happens tomorrow?'"

That sentence seemed to say so much. A friend, a fellow Army wife, and I had been emailing about the growing number of troops killed in Afghanistan. She told me about a good friend of hers whose husband was killed and how she...

I've seen a lot of parachutes.

Big jumps, little jumps, Golden Knights -- there are parachutes aplenty here at Fort Bragg and I've seen a bunch of them. I've even written about the chutes themselves. Jumping out of airplanes begins to seem commonplace when soldiers wearing maroon and green...

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There's this gross thing I do a few weeks before my husband...

There's a phrase being tossed around military installations, "living in the new normal." It means that this -- this life of repeated deployments, prosthetics and memorial services -- is what life is going to look like for us for a while to come, so we had better learn to deal...