This Halloween was a struggle. A struggle to both kill my inner grinch AND the deployment zombies. I am a holiday person by nature. Just look at the care packages I make! How can such a fiesty little craftster NOT go head over heels for anything involving decorations?
Ah..but holidays during deployment? EEK!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Deployment vs. Holiday
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A Military Wife's take on DADT
There was a time in my life that I was convinced that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was protecting homosexuals in the military from the imminent violence that was sure to befall them, should they ever disclose their sexuality. By forcing gay, lesbian, and bisexual servicemembers to remain closeted, it would prevent any hate crimes against them.
Since then, I have both come out as bisexual, and married into the Marine Corps. I've realized that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not protecting troops from hate crime, it IS the hate crime.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Halloween Care Package + Instructions
Aaaah...the fruits of my labor. My Halloween care package is done!!!
I took a bit of a different route this time. Instead of using clip art and graphics I free-handed the entire thing with white puff paint. The hardest part was the right-hand flap, which is supposed to be the entrance to the cemetary in "The Nightmare Before Christmas", but I don't think you really get the full effect online. It looks a lot better in person.
Friday, October 1, 2010
No Atheists in Foxholes
I was trying to stay away from certain religious and political topics on this blog, just because I thought my personal beliefs were irrelevant to deployment.
But then I thought about it. Are they *really* that irrelevant? First I was bombarded with a barrage of emails from my FRO advertising chaplain services on base for "deployed spouses". Then I attended a unit spouse function that opened and closed a with prayer. Then I got an email from my husband about how his roommate requested a transfer out of their barracks because he couldn't "room with an atheist". My husband's own rear detachment once told me "There are no Atheists in foxholes".
And then someone asked me the burning, dying question:
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