Did you know… Mission: Milspouse published its 3000th blog post in 2023 and is still growing!
From Green To brown…Finding beauty everywhere
“Blooming where you are planted may sound like an oxymoron to someone who discovers they are going to be planted in a brown desert, especially if that “someone” is from rolling green luscious hills of California wine country.
It’s Okay to Struggle
Our service members carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Their burden is shared by us, the people who love them. The act of taking on this kind of stress is taxing. Our ability to live fully ourselves is more important than ever. But sometimes, we struggle.
The Legacy of Visual Memories
As I sit here at my computer working on my next blog post to you all, I had to stop what I was working on and save it for another blog post due to this pressing on my heart and what I feel God urging me to share.
In the light of the recent weeks’ events, things that are going on in the Middle East, soldiers being mobilized, and families separated due to deployment, this month I am going to write about legacy.
First, let’s define legacy. Legacy is anything handed down from the past; from an ancestor or predecessor. You may wonder, What does legacy have to do with photographs? I truly believe that photographs are a window into the past. A record in history that someone was here or something happened.
Don’t Be a Well-Being Bully
2019 was a rough year for me. The only thing more unbalanced than my mental health was my diet. I had such high hopes for 2020—I even made a resolution to be immerse myself in better, more positive thinking habits.
All of that came to a screeching halt last week as I watched our troops deploying and rockets flying over al-Asad.
The “friendly” meme drop came just as I had begun to calm down from the initial here-we-go-again panic. The fuzzy-greenish haze of worry began to slowly sharpen into a red-hot fury of rage. Did my non-military friend really just send me a meme reminding me to “think good thoughts?”
You have got to be kidding me right now.
Christmas in a Minor Key
The holiday season; the season of Joy. In my experience the holiday season brings many happy moments: Watching holiday movies, making cookies to share, decorating the house with lights, spending time with family.
Christmas carols hold a special place in my heart. Every Christmas Eve of my childhood was spent singing carols with my family while my church organist grandmother played the piano. We are, by no means, one of those Von Trapp-caliber singing families. Still, we would laugh as we sang different parts for The Twelve Days of Christmas and poked fun at Grandma during our rendition of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
Even as I write these words and remember such joyful moments, I have tears in my eyes.
Mapping Out Your New Year
t’s arrived. I turn it over in my hands, appreciating the new leather, running my fingers over the embossed 2020 on the cover. Cracking it open, I am met with initial stiffness and resistance as with the start of any new thing. To limber it up, I shuffle the pages with my thumb from front to back and back again. Now the crisp, sparkling blank pages greet me openly. They are bright white, empty, and brimming with the promise of things to come.
It’s a new year and a new calendar. A tool to plan and direct the flow of time as best we mortals can. Skipping past January, February, and all the other months, I find the few blank pages in the back. It is here I will make my mark.
How many of us get into our car and begin driving to a new destination without first putting it in the GPS?
The Journey to Discovering Your Why
This time of the year is notorious for finding something in your life that you want to remove, increase, or alter from the previous year into the new year.
I have gone through many New Year’s resolutions in my lifetime. Becoming debt-free is always near the top of my list—each year I am able to decrease it, but never fully cross the finish line. Other times I am able to truly commit to changing my behaviors for a better wiser self.
Why do some of the commitments that we make never survive into February, while others become a lifestyle change? Finding the why inside, that core motivation to make the desired change.
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