almost forgotten Home it looked so terribly unfamiliar tile floors and white walls like photos had not lined them I have come back for a...

On the surface level, being a military brat with siblings isn’t much different than being an ordinary brat with siblings. You can’t stand...

The Pentagon/Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall duty station and its surrounding area (the DMV region) is home to a high military population,...

Arlington County in Northern Virginia is home to a famous and easily recognizable duty station - the Pentagon. The Pentagon and its...

Some people say that military life is my entire personality. They say it somehow manages to creep into almost any thought that leaves my...

I was never one of the kids who could identify a plane during flight, who could name every single squadron, or who could speak of all the...

A new neighbor She just arrived The movers' mid labor She looks sleep deprived I go over, wave my hand She greets me with a smile on her...

The card gets folded into a paper plane, paper memories, paper friendship. But paper planes don't prepare you for the real thing. The...

Counting down the minutes until the final box would make its way into the truck, I silently prayed that this was all just a bad dream. Of...

As April transitions into hues of purple, it is time to rally behind our military youth. This year's Month of the Military Child theme...

An owl. A firefly. A crusader. A trojan. A stallion. A wolf. Each of these represents the mascot of a school that I’ve attended. Six...

As a military kid, I often dread the age-old "Where are you from?" I usually answer one of two ways: the place I live in, or I'll say...

My home is in my heart, I always need a new start, I make friends everywhere I go, It makes no difference, I know, It will never change,...

'Hey, bud, uh, just checking in If actually, if you want, I'm, uh, in between flight We're all flying and I'm gone heading out to the...

The process of PSCing is tense. Since a military environment has always surrounded me, moving has been portrayed as an adventure and a...

being alone has never been an issue I can explore and travel and experience on my own being alone tends to be my normal when I move I...

Let me just start out by saying that writer’s block is real. Sometimes it’s hard to get into an article, make it meaningful, and give it...

My dad is often met with the phrase, "Thank you for your service." In the Walmart checkout line, after church sessions, between gas...

Whether it’s a novel, comic book, biography, or something else, reading something that we relate to can bring cathartic emotions to the...

Six months ago, in June, I moved from Camp Humphreys, South Korea, where I'd lived for five years, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for my...