What can you expect to find here?

What can you expect to find here?
What in the world is this blog about? What a fantastic question! I wish someone would tell me! I kid, I kid. Sort of. My blog is about life. How’s that for vague? It’s musings and ponderings and thoughts and wrestlings and ah-ha moments and darkness and mountaintops and valleys and Stanley Cup championships.

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Who am I?

Who am I?
I’m fo…mumble mumble garble garble…years old. I grew up as an only child of older parents in a tiny Ohio town. We had no stoplights, a train that passed through but didn’t bother to stop, and a high school with teachers so old they had taught our parents. Many people have a Norman Rockwell view of small-town life. That was not my town.
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The 5 Things You Can Control

The 5 Things You Can Control

We humans love to be in control, do we not? Think about the small child on grandpa’s lap steering a truck through a field. Oh the excitement to turn that wheel and have a whole vehicle respond! We are control junkies!


But what do we really have control over?

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5 Ways to Calm the Chaos

5 Ways to Calm the Chaos

One thing is certain, when you are a military wife, you better learn to roll with the punches. Life is crazy, unstable, unpredictable, amazing, exciting, terrifying, and exhausting. I’m sure I left out a few pertinent adjectives there, but you get the idea. If you live this life, I don’t have to explain it to you. If you don’t, I can’t begin to explain it to you.


You don’t have to be a military wife to deal with constant turmoil in life, though...

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Waking Up

Waking Up

Okay, I don’t really mean sleeping. I just mean, what do you do when you’ve been awakened to something new and everyone else, it seems, is still asleep? Certainly this is a pertinent topic in today’s political and social climate, but it applies to loads of scenarios. How you deal with your newfound knowledge can be detrimental to the state of your relationships.


First up, let’s get a big topic out of the way...

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