Self-care

I watched Sex and the City on repeat in my college years. My girlfriends and I would gather around our living room TV with bowls of popcorn and glasses of wine. We would stay up late in the night...

Both of our children were born during a tour that was supposed to last four years, and we were only a mere three hours from our hometowns. That tour was cut short by a year when my husband was...

This post was written one month ago, just hours after miscarriage.  I have three young kids: a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 9-month old baby girl. It's great when they get along, but the two older boys bicker constantly. It...

I am an idealist. Since I was a little girl, I’ve held this innate belief of ideals over practicality. I don’t look at facts. I look at hope beyond reasonable explanation. Some would call people like myself visionaries, wishful thinkers, romanticists,...

If you’re anything like me, self-care is something that often gets pushed into the ‘nice to do’ pile rather than ‘must do.  This is especially true during deployments but I often find it slipping at other times too.  One...

You might have noticed threading kiosks popping up in malls across America lately. They're fairly minimal with reclining salon chairs and nothing more than a technician with a spool of cotton thread to shape the eyebrows of clients. Individuals...

The Immortalists: It is 1969 New York City, and the Gold children are looking for a little fun. Word had spread through the Lower East Side of a psychic woman who can read fortunes. The four adolescent siblings set...

I’m sure that we have all heard about the importance of self-care, especially as moms. We need to take some time for ourselves, we should focus on eating and drinking enough water, or how setting aside time in our days...

When I fell for him in college -- his feet were bare, he had a beard and a crazy mop of hair – I never dreamed he’d become a doctor, much less a doctor in the Army. So when...

As a mom, it's difficult to find time to read. When I was a kid, I was always reading. I loved fiction and poetry. I devoured both the classics and The Baby-Sitters Club. I fell in love with the...

Do you pee when you sneeze? This is sort of a sensitive question and topic, and this might be too personal for some of us to answer. But asking this question and seeking out treatment has really changed my life...

If your best friend, neighbor, sibling, or a total stranger in the parking lot of the grocery store told you that: they felt like they were failing as a parent that their children’s behavior was a disaster some days ...