With over 4,000 different options for colleges in the United States and over 25,000 options worldwide, high schoolers today have an...

On the surface level, being a military brat with siblings isn’t much different than being an ordinary brat with siblings. You can’t stand...

June 20th will mark one full year of me living in Portugal. One full year of ups and downs, of growing and changing, of steps forward and...

The Pentagon/Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall duty station and its surrounding area (the DMV region) is home to a high military population,...

Arlington County in Northern Virginia is home to a famous and easily recognizable duty station - the Pentagon. The Pentagon and its...

Some people say that military life is my entire personality. They say it somehow manages to creep into almost any thought that leaves my...

Summers for military kids are often times of change. Thankfully, most places in the US have the typical staples of summer (pools,...

I was never one of the kids who could identify a plane during flight, who could name every single squadron, or who could speak of all the...

Throughout my lifetime, I have been one of those people who couldn't seem to stick to one singular activity. I have participated in...

A new neighbor She just arrived The movers' mid labor She looks sleep deprived I go over, wave my hand She greets me with a smile on her...

The card gets folded into a paper plane, paper memories, paper friendship. But paper planes don't prepare you for the real thing. The...

The military is filled with leaders. There are the top-dog in-charge-of-thousands-of-soldiers leaders, and there are the squad leaders,...

Counting down the minutes until the final box would make its way into the truck, I silently prayed that this was all just a bad dream. Of...

As April transitions into hues of purple, it is time to rally behind our military youth. This year's Month of the Military Child theme...

An owl. A firefly. A crusader. A trojan. A stallion. A wolf. Each of these represents the mascot of a school that I’ve attended. Six...

As a military kid, I often dread the age-old "Where are you from?" I usually answer one of two ways: the place I live in, or I'll say...

My home is in my heart, I always need a new start, I make friends everywhere I go, It makes no difference, I know, It will never change,...

Is it possible to miss a friend when you’re sitting right next to her? Or feel homesick even as you sit in the house you ache for? Some...

'Hey, bud, uh, just checking in If actually, if you want, I'm, uh, in between flight We're all flying and I'm gone heading out to the...

Recently, a Bloom blog titled 'Sports: Benefiting Military Teens' discussed the incredible benefits that sports can have on military...

Your smile. Contagious to anyone who sees you. I feel whole for the first time ever. Here and there, laughs and giggles, running at night...

It's March, which means it's none other than International Women’s History Month. And to celebrate the militant women of our history, I...

It triumphs over our trust, our commitment, our effort. I miss you. I can't remember what it feels like when the video calls are enough....

The process of PSCing is tense. Since a military environment has always surrounded me, moving has been portrayed as an adventure and a...