The service industry may seem obsessed with fulfilling your every whim, but at the end of the vacation week, it’s all about that bottom line.

I can’t help but be alarmed at how drastically life has changed in the past 40 years, thanks to the veritable tidal wave of technology that has swept over the world since 1983.I find it frightening that something we can’t even see has so rapidly changed life as we know it, forever.

I assumed that all military men were “manly” types who tinkered with cars, hooked up stereos, and fixed stuff around the house. Shiver me timbers, was I off course!

A three-person friendship group can be difficult to maintain without someone becoming the third wheel.

Sometimes when you examine similarities and differences of extended family members, you find that it’s all relative.

Sometimes it’s better if we don’t hear that small internal voice that we’ve lived with for so long.

My pride in my family’s service and sacrifices for our country has never wavered. But I worry that I’ve lost my perspective on the true value of military service.

I’ve relied on military-provided medicine for three decades, but something seems fundamentally changed. Even with Tricare updates, Genesis systems and newfangled machines, military health care has become exponentially more frustrating and unresponsive.

When a mom gets a call from her ailing child in need, nothing else matters.

My opportunity for a grand chartered fishing adventure never came in my adolescent years. As a self-sufficient military spouse in my 50s, I decided to create my own trip.

Paring down your family’s belongings is an important part of the moving process, as long as you don’t get too carried away.

At about 6 years old, I decided I was running away. For real this time. It’s an impulse that’s never fully gone away -- until now.

If your husband has impending surgery, beware. Whether you like it or not, you’re on the hook to be his post-operative caregiver. Your spouse needs you to make good on that “sickness and health” clause. Ready or not, you’re it.

What do military teens REALLY think about their lifestyle? One shares the struggles and lessons that come from a childhood marked by frequent disruption.

I should have seen the signs exhibited while riding down the highway with my father-in-law -- a portent of what my married experience would be.

If humans grew inner rings each year like trees do, I imagine that the trunk of a military spouse would tell quite a story.

How can the military improve retention and readiness? How about focusing on supporting the modern military family unit.

I won’t inflict upon you the tedious and at times gruesome details of my labor with my first child. But I will share a few of my most embarrassing moments leading up to this painful but glorious event.

College degrees aren’t useless, but pie-in-the-sky expectations for the next step can be problematic.