http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/820 Category: Jacey Eckhart en-us Copyright 2012 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sat, 26 May 2012 19:20:11 -0400 By Jacey Eckhart I've never seen her swim. I can only imagine Ginger in the water. I imagine her in goggles, her face turned to the bottom of the pool, her feet kicking out a rhythm, a cool flip turn at the end of the lane. I imagine Ginger in peace. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/10/finding-pool-serenity-when-your-life-edge Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 In hindsight, the way those people entered the garden seems perfectly clear. They fell in love with (or gave birth to) this darling boy who longed to be a Navy SEAL. He deployed over and over because that was his job. Then this one bizarre day, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter way over in Afghanistan. Twenty-two Navy SEALs and eight other American service members were killed. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/finding-courage-garden-forking-paths Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:57:40 -0400 I'm sure the guitarist at the Ocean House restaurant thought I was crazy. I know my family did. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/beach-reflections-seeing-our-lives-lives-others Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:58:51 -0400 I used to claim that after deployment our family was like a merry-go-round. We had to slow the "ride" so that Brad could jump back on. Brad scoffs at that now. "This is no merry-go-round," he snarled. "This is the Scrambler!" http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/when-schedule-scrambles-weekends-its-time-organize Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:55:07 -0400 Building Happily Ever After with a military dude requires spouses to master two "initial" sets of skills: D-ployment and M-ployment. And to tell you the truth, I think the M-ployment skills are harder. Because as long as you are still breathing at the end of deployment, you can count yourself as D-ployment skilled. You know you ain't got M-ployment skills until you have a J-O-B. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/07/if-youre-military-spouse-know-these-tips-gain-employment Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:06:48 -0400 Brad had been home from deployment about a week when the accusations came thick and fast. "You take all his time!" "You have all the fun!" "You just want to be alone!" http://hamptonroads.com/2011/07/easy-no-foundation-happilyeverafter-built-over-lifetime Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:06:41 -0400 They wore yellow ribbons. When I skipped up to the international arrivals gate for my husband's seventh homecoming, I spotted this pair wearing yellow satin ribbons around their waists. So I just had to stand next to them. "Are you waiting for someone to come home from deployment?" I asked, certain that anyone who wears yellow satin ribbon in public wants to be asked about it. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/why-do-some-who-serve-lie-when-getting-job-done-mission-accomplished Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:02:46 -0400 After the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent radiation leakage from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, nearly 7,000 military family members from five U.S. military bases in Japan left the country under the volunteer evacuation plan. That's when the attacks commenced. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/some-lifes-hard-choices-there-are-no-easy-answers Sun, 22 May 2011 18:33:47 -0400 This week our ombudsman sent out the standard list of homecoming dos and don’ts. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/follow-these-tips-successful-military-homecoming Sun, 15 May 2011 20:34:27 -0400 "War has a gender  - and it is male," wrote author and essayist Virginia Woolf in 1938.  Eh, I don't think that is so true today. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/we-need-deeper-look-support-needs-male-military-spouses Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:47:27 -0400