The military has a culture where everything is fine. There are often times you don’t have control over your life. Where you move, where and when your husband will be gone and it is all just fine. We have this “I can do it” motto we live by. Probably because that is the way it […]
Category Archives: Friends
Finding that First New Friend at a New Assignment
When you move to a new place often you don’t know anyone. Sometime you get lucky and can get connected because a friend of a friend lives there and other times you have to start from scratch. You look at your list of who you can call if you are faced with an emergency and […]
Emergency Contact Reboot…Finding New Friends
“How do you do it?” It is a question that I am asked often by friends who are boggled by all the moving and starting over. Moving is the military mantra. And because of this, friendships come and go at a high rate. Making and finding new friends is just something I have to do. […]
Why Saying Goodbye to Friends Isn’t Easy
Technology may make it easier to stay connected when friends move away, but it doesn’t change the fact that saying goodbye to friends is hard. What feels like it was so far away is quickly approaching and the reality that nothing will change is no longer an illusion I can live with. Soon life will […]
