by Liz A | Sep 11, 2023 | Guest Blogger
A young American man’s reflection on 9/11 11 Sep 2023 This perspective is colored by the fact that I’m a 22 year old guy from America, so I expect my views to be familiar to some, foreign to most, but in acknowledgement of this anniversary I’d like to reflect on an...
by Liz A | Dec 22, 2022 | Pepper and Bear
A dependable pair of muckers Can an Army wife retire? Chop, chop – the steel blades slid past each other like the propellers of the Black Hawk helicopters flying past the bathroom skylights of my Northern Virginia townhouse. Chop, chop… chop, chop, the metal smashed...
by Liz A | Jun 13, 2022 | Guest Blogger
Ruth Marie (Ruthika) Although she has just passed her first birthday, her personality is dominant enough to describe. She is the only daughter whose name fits her size. In looks, she resembles the two blood sisters who proceeded her. No one could mistake those fierce...
by Liz A | May 1, 2022 | Portfolio
Right before our PCS to Cleveland this past spring, 2022, I did get the opportunity to interview several brave Coast Guard divers in February– right in the midst of their participation in some “very cool” training at Camp Ripley, Minnesota. They...
by Liz A | Apr 1, 2022 | Guest Blogger
To my oldest daughter, Catherine by Diane Martin Child of the sun-drenched plains of Africa, moving in constant rhythm to the swaying grasses and pulsating beat of the drums, you smile gently on all you see. Your inheritance, my daughter, is fair: you carry the soft...