I have a secret which is the worst-kept secret in the world.
Yet when my secret inevitably gets out, the usual response is, “I had no idea!”
Posts By: Retired Blogger
Hating Your Installation? Hunt the Good Stuff!
Most of us have probably felt a hate for the current place we call home—at least a time or two. It could be the housing, the neighbors, the weather, the unit, the constant deployment or TDY cycles, or one of a hundred other things that make it bad. I’ve had that hate, but just like going through basic training, often times it takes moving on from that installation to realize it wasn’t really that bad or that there was actually some good things about that “home.”
Feeling Settled? Great, Let’s Move!
We moved from Fort Carson in the summer of 2012. In the middle of a deployment. After being evacuated from our home because of the wildfires in Colorado that summer, which is a whole other story.
A Year of Thanks: January
I told you in December that I am going to write down every day something for which I am thankful. What I found interesting about this project so far is that there are many things I appreciate. I’m not sure if it’s sinking into my kid’s brain, but hey, I tried!
Retirement: Location, Location, Location
In my first blog post about retirement that was posted back in September, I talked about the priority pyramid. This is one of the ways to visualize your priorities, in which you choose four main priorities (I arbitrarily chose location, school/career, family, and income as my headings; feel free to change those up) that you want to consider for goal planning, and stack them in order of which is most important to you.
Holding It Down, Solo? I Salute You!
I am a magnet for strangers who repeatedly make the following comment to me:
“Oh my, you sure have your hands full!”
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