Quilting has been a major part of my life. Growing up with a grandmother who loves sewing, I was used to the hustle and bustle of the...

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...

TDY. Temporary duty. Just a few weeks - that’s not too long, right? He won’t miss too much, right? Maybe. Maybe it won’t be too bad....

'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...

A few days ago, the Bloom Team was introduced to this headline: Tom Brady Compares the Football Season to ‘Going Away on Deployment in...

Nothing irks me more than those silly “You can do it!” posters. Sometimes nothing but negativity spews out of my mouth, and I feel like I...

(Art by Tim Brumbeloe) There is this melody in our hearts when someone deploys. A father, a mother, a sister, a brother, son, daughter…...

As military teens, there is something that we have always dreaded: Deployments. Formally, military deployment is when a service member is...

Most military families are no strangers to deployments, and the sad truth is that these long spans of separation can greatly disrupt a...

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day, and I saw that a girl I used to go to school with was on ESPN’s Instagram account....