Today, I am thankful for you, sitting behind me in calc class our impromptu rendezvous-- Today, for the first time, you mentioned middle...

The following essay is the first place winner of our 2024 Month of the Military Child Writing Contest. The theme was to write a letter to...

Connection. Belonging. Stability. These are the buzzwords used to explain the educational childhood of a military brat. We've all heard...

Recently, someone thanked me for being a military child. I didn’t quite know what to say. Well, it’s not like I have a choice. It’s not...

There’re boxes around, Nothing can be found. Where’s my dresser? Where’s my TV? Where’s everything That belongs to me? The neighbors - I...

This article was sent to us by Kaitlyn H., a 10th grader stationed in Virginia. Do you have a story to share with your fellow military...

What brings joy to my life? It’s a question I might not be asked much but have contemplated many a time. What in my life causes me to...

This article was sent to us by Katherine T., a 10th grader stationed at the US Embassy in Lithuania. Do you have a story to share with...

I sit here and think up in my room Of all the places where I have bloomed The friends I had in different places I can think distinctly of...

Service is a concept that all military families are intimately familiar with. We're familiar with it cause that’s why mom or dad are...

This article was sent to us by Maddie G., a college freshman stationed at Washington DC. Do you have a story to share with your fellow...

At the start of sophomore year, I was not prepared to miss the feeling of being the new kid. That's what I had always been an exotic, new...

This poem was sent to us by Iona P., a college freshman stationed in Virginia. Do you have a story to share with your fellow military...

"There's no place like home for the holidays," or so sings Perry Como (and the countless other artists who have covered the song). With...

As we're wrapping up the last quarter of 2023, I've started to play one song on repeat: “A Long December” by Counting Crows, a song that...

Milteens are very familiar with the ache that comes from not seeing their loved ones around the holidays. It’s just something that many...

In the life of military kids, there are so many things that we can all relate to, regardless of our journeys, and there are so many...

This article was sent to us by Elly M., a grown-up Army brat stationed at the Royal Air Force Wattisham in Suffolk, England. Do you have...

School has started again, and you know what that means: millions of students joining millions of clubs and teams. High schoolers...

we interrupt kick this dream kick for a brief kick announcement: your little sister, still talking with 'ar's that make her sound like...