John's been home for more than three months now, but I continue to get emails and Facebook messages asking for deployment advice and...

Last year I created this list of things that I wanted to do while John was gone. Looking over this list, I'm pretty surprised that I go...

I was fifteen when I watched the Twin Towers fall on TV in Mr. Hunter's English 10 class. I was old enough to understand human suffe...

At the beginning of February, I participated in the Lots of Love Blogger Swap . The idea was to get the name of another blogger, (lovingl...

Here's the post I've been dying to write and post, but just couldn't bring myself to write it and admit that John's leave h...

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Today has been a pretty tough day-- not because John's gone, but because my students were so hyp...

2012, wow. What a year! Strange, thrilling, maddening, challenging, frustrating, and elating... and all in just 366 days. I can't say t...

Today, I was going to post another template for one of John's Christmas ornaments. And then, yesterday, Sandy Hook happened. If you don...