I wish there were four of me. Then at least one of me could adequately update my blog with all of the things that have been happening! Those of you who have kept up with my semi-regular (and frequent not-so-regular) postings on this blog know that for the past two years, it has been a

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I’m thrilled to let you know that my new book, God Strong: A Military Wife’s Spiritual Survival Guide, releases this month. If there ever was a book that defined what Wives of Faith is about, this is it. I wrote it to be a reminder to myself and to other wives so we can remember

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My friend Angela, a sister Seabee wife, passed this on to me in an email this morning. I had seen rumblings in the news and tweets on twitter over the last couple of days but this week has been so busy, I hadn’t really paid full attention to it. I don’t believe the media should

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This press release was sent to me yesterday… something good for all military spouses to be aware of. Though this doesn’t primarily affect Reserve and Guard spouses, we should still support this initiative… after all, you may in fact become an active spouse one day. Contact your Congressman and ask them to support this important

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Here’s a good story I ran across today on one Army Reserve unit is using You Tube and other social media tools to reach a wider audience. Fort Snelling Army Reserve program first on YouTube When I was in Iraq in 2003, my photographer and I stayed with an Army Reserve MPAD (Mobile Public Affairs

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Got an email from Laura Faber over the weekend… she was a reporter and evening co-anchor of Fox17 here in Nashville when Cliff was deployed to Iraq and she and cameraman Brian Hallett covered our story for the almost year-long deployment. The series that they did, Service and Sacrifice, won an Emmy last week in

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Hey everyone – this is a quick update to say hello and explain the absence lately… I am deep in the trenches of writing GOD Strong: Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know (Zondervan, 2010), and with that and my work with Wives of Faith, I have been a little crunched for time lately! I

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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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(**crossposted at Wives of Faith) The emails and Facebook messages have already been flowing in… “how did it go?” “Oh, I wish I could have been there. Was it great?” “I was praying for everyone, can’t wait to hear all about it!” Normally when you come back from a conference you are ready to share

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Hey everyone, Well, we are in day 3 of this year’s Annual Training where my husband gets to go do his military thing and I stay here and do everything else. It’s usually not such a big deal because I know he is working hard where he is, but he made the mistake of calling

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