Composting for Beginners

Unfortunately there is no easy way to put this. Composting is so ridiculously easy, you may have very few excuses not to get started.First, what is composting? Does a big pile of smelly trash and flies come into your head when someone tells you they compost at home?...

The Less Awkward Way to Find Mom Friends

The loneliest I have ever been during my time as an Army wife was when my daughter was a baby. She was a barracuda of an eater and a disaster of a sleeper and I couldn’t believe that my husband got to go to work and abandon me at home, exhausted and very much alone....

How to Find Joy in a Rental Kitchen

Sometimes in military life, we get assigned housing. Sometimes we get to choose a rental house. And sometimes, when all the stars align, we get to buy a house. But for me anyway, none of these are forever homes. We’ve never been stationed in a place where we would...

Self-Reflection: Who Are You Really?

It was Bhava Ram’s job to interview me recently for a two-minute video about yoga, being a military spouse, InDependent, and why I think his new organization, Warriors for Healing, is so great. Still, I came away from our conversation with one huge takeaway....

Warriors for Healing – A Pathway for Coping with PTSD

It was December of 1999. My son had just turned two years old. He was my entire life. The only soft spot I had left. I was dying of stage four cancer from exposure to depleted uranium years earlier while on the front lines of the Persian Gulf War. My back was broken...