Working on a feature article for Military Spouse and I need your help! Who are your absolute FAVORITE, MUST-READ milspouse bloggers? Which blogtalk milspouse radio shows do you love and find yourself listening to the most?

First Lady Michele Obama was championing the rights of military families during the campaign; it will be interesting to see what she accomplishes now that her husband is president, and whether her husband’s actions in office toward the military (bringing home troops too early, closing Gitmo, repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy) may actually

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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been “tweeting” (Twitter talk for all you non-Twitter folks ) with Lauren Vargas (@AAFES_STYS) who works for AAFES and she told me something I didn’t know – that the commanding officer in charge of AAFES, Major General Keith Thurgood, was an Army reservist before accepting his current assignment. Actually, I think

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When we were going through our deployment last year, I was determined to be the best, supportive wife that I could be. I was going to shower my husband with care packages, be sweet and loving every time he called, not mind at all dropping everything I was doing to talk (and of course I

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We got to go see Fireproof Friday night. ABSOLUTELY AWESOME MOVIE! If you haven’t seen this movie you need to. I was not disappointed. There are so many issues that are raised in this film, and it really does a great job of opening up dialogue and communication between couples afterwards. Cliff and I were

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In my experience? Yes. Military Spouse Magazine has an article on maintaining friendships featured on their site today and it makes some interesting points I could relate to. When you go through a deployment, you find out who your real friends are. Before Cliff deployed, we had two sets of “couple” friends that we did

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I often get asked by well-meaning civilians what they can do to help military families. So… in honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day that’s coming up THIS FRIDAY (Hint, Hint, military husbands whose wives would really ‘preciate some ‘preciation)… here’s a list of tips I’ve put together. We’re sending this press release out in hopes

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I got a notice in the mail a couple of weeks ago from the Defense Manpower Data Center, a department under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness) asking me to participate in their survey of military spouses. I took the thirty-minute survey online yesterday and it was pretty comprehensive. Questions

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