Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.