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How Nomads Build Community

How Nomads Build Community

by | Jul 22, 2020

We are nomads. Not livestock-moving nomads (unless of course you count children and pets), but nomads nonetheless.

Dictionary.com defines a nomad as “a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place.” Sound familiar?  

We are certainly a tribe all our own. Regardless of service (Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard), we have common experiences with unique language and customs that seem strange at times to our civilian counterparts. With special customs only we understand, we’re like some unique culture in a world of normal.

Veteran Bonuses by State

Veteran Bonuses by State

by | Jul 8, 2020

When it comes to retiring, ETSing, or leaving the military service to finally put down deep roots, once concern is tax benefits and other privileges. Let us make the research easier for you (though we can’t help with the decision-making). For more information and a detailed account of a specific state’s benefits, click the state name. Please note that eligibility for any of these benefits may depend on residency, military component, and veteran disability status.

How to Maintain Your Mental Health During COVID-19

How to Maintain Your Mental Health During COVID-19

by | Jun 18, 2020

Remember the good old days—before anyone had coined the term “social distancing?”

So far, 2020 has been marked by an escalating global crisis fueled by the spread of COVID-19. Now that the United States has joined the list of countries with widespread cases, we’re coping with the tragedy of human loss, the financial impact on our communities and our pocketbooks, and the shared responsibility of slowing the spread of the virus.

Friends: Make Them, Keep Them

Friends: Make Them, Keep Them

by | Mar 13, 2020

I remember the Girl Scouts song: “Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver, and the other gold.” I didn’t know how important having friends in adulthood would be when my 10-year-old self sang that song. I want everyone to have a life full of friends and a strong network they can reach out to when facing life’s joys and sorrows.

Consider the friend role. Be thoughtful about what information and emotions are shared with friends and what action is expected from friends. Guard the sharing times as a time to build each other up.

I have a good friend from just about every phase of my life and one best friend that I have known since high school. Each of my friendships has a different focus, almost a language all our own. Most of my good friends are from work relationships, and each can be counted on when I have something to share. My best friend is someone I can spend time with without saying a word.

We Once Were Fascinated By Everything and Everyone

We Once Were Fascinated By Everything and Everyone

by | Mar 5, 2020

I work part time at a local grocery store in my hometown here in Massachusetts. It affords me to watch human nature. 

I look at the children and am charmed by their never-ending joy and awe in all that they see. As they either walk with mom or dad or sit in the shopping cart, it seems everyone they meet is a point of total fascination. 

Somehow, they don’t seem to be concerned that the other person is dirty, or black, or speaks differently, or is old and feeble. They just look with star-struck wonder at everyone and everything.

Building Love Maps in Your Marriage

Building Love Maps in Your Marriage

by | Feb 12, 2020

I love those first few weeks when I PCS to a new place. Undaunted by a lack of household goods or limited leave, I load my family up every morning to go out exploring our new home. Driving around the installation aimlessly but full of intention.

We speculate on which park we will enjoy walking to the most or which of a town’s kitschy diners we will frequent on Sundays after church. Taking it all in. Learning the main roads at first, the way to the commissary, the PX, then gradually picking up on the backways and roundabout shortcuts. By the time your stay is halfway up, you know how to avoid gate traffic and where to go to meet your friends for coffee or lunch. Though no matter how well you have become acquainted with it, the town you leave is seldom the same town when your moving truck arrived. The place you have all your socials closes down and is replaced by another restaurant, new boutiques open on Main Street. Of course, just before you leave, you begin discovering fascinating places and activities that have been there all along, but you never knew.

Our marriages are similar.

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