My Date with Breast Cancer
Dates. Our lives are full of important ones - our birthday, our wedding anniversary, our children’s birthdays. In the military, promotion dates and deployment dates are also important. I never thought THESE dates would forever change my life:February 5th: I’d...
5 Things I Do With My Friends During Deployments
Chances are, if you are reading this article you currently have a deployed spouse or one that will deploy or leave for an extended period of time in the future. And chances are, you’re nervous and wondering what you are going to do with all your free time. How do I...
Fourteen Emotional Stages of Deployment
As any military spouse will tell you, one of the hardest things on a marriage is being away from your spouse for long periods of time due to deployments, field rotations, unaccompanied tours, extended TDYs, or even voluntary geographic bachelorhood made necessary by...
Happy Birthday InDependent: One Year Review
What if you were offered a job that required you to work many hours —primarily during the evenings, weekends, holidays, and major life transitions —under the condition that you may or may not receive a paycheck. Ever. Would you accept? For our InDependent team, this...
How to Develop a Personal Mission Statement
Overwhelmed with life? Developing a personal mission statement can help you break through the chaos of life by organizing your priorities and creating a plan to balance your responsibilities so you can meet goals and continue to grow in ways that are important to you....
Smartphones: Doing Everything, Accomplishing Nothing
Smartphones: Doing Everything, Accomplishing Nothing “If only we had a smartphone we would…” used to be a joke between my husband and me as we traveled around Europe while stationed in Germany. I wanted one and he didn’t. He objected mostly due to the cost and the...