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 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,...

Is it possible to miss a friend when you’re sitting right next to her? Or feel homesick even as you sit in the house you ache for? Some...

Your smile. Contagious to anyone who sees you. I feel whole for the first time ever. Here and there, laughs and giggles, running at night...

It triumphs over our trust, our commitment, our effort. I miss you. I can't remember what it feels like when the video calls are enough....

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...

When military teens move to a new place, a major struggle is meeting people at their new school - finding people and potential friends to...

Earlier this year, the U.S. News and World Report named Huntsville, Alabama as the best place to live in America. I had never even known...

Here I am again, staring out a window at the concrete, as the engines begin to roar. Engines. Concrete. I try not to think, because then...

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

High school stabilization: something my family never thought we would apply for. We’ve always been the type of people who go with the...

One thing I’ve learned from being a military kid is that you experience a lot of change. It seems like a given since you’re expected to...

Regional, ethnic, religious - thousands of cultures surround our day-to-day lives. They mingle and disperse - little snowflakes in the...

Military brats all have at least one thing in common. We've all been the new kid at one point or another. Some of us are the new kids...

Well, they both have layers and can make you cry. One evening, as my dad and I drove through Crystal City, he pointed out the hotels he...

To step out of the lunch line is to have a brief out of body experience. I can see me hugging the straps of my purple backpack, like it...