A Spouse's Point of View
Viva! Las Vegas: Bigger and Brighter in 2010
The Rat Pack-era Las Vegas glamour will be one of several exciting changes to this year’s Viva! Las Vegas event at the Thayer Hotel on West Point. The annual event, sponsored by the West Point Women’s Club, will host gaming and good times from 6-11 p.m. Feb. 26 to raise money for community grants and scholarships.
This year’s Viva! Las Vegas night will be bigger and brighter than ever, according to Belinda Bault, WPWC President. The changes the club has made should allow more people...
Read more...Posted on Friday, 05-Feb-2010 17:56 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 01-07-2010
An old friend from five years and three addresses ago just reconnected with me on Facebook. Regrettably, all of the moving had caused us to lose touch. And, when I tried to find her, Google brought up half a million hits for people with the same name.
I met Kim at Fort Drum during my husband’s first deployment. She got me through the ice storms of upstate New York, told me I would be okay when volunteer melodrama erupted and shared a laugh when it seemed no one else got the joke.Posted on Friday, 08-Jan-2010 09:46 AM
A Spouse's Point of View 12-03-2009
An acquaintance of mine was walking a few streets down from her military housing when she yelled out for her child. As she did, a woman came running out of a nearby house.
“Oh my gosh!” the woman said, “I can’t believe it’s you. I’ve been hearing your voice over my baby monitor for the past few months and I was trying figure out who you were ...”
Baby monitor tales are part of the folklore of military living––almost everyone has heard one of these stories. They are a comm...
Read more...Posted on Thursday, 03-Dec-2009 17:53 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 11-05-2009
The City of Newburgh is an area that I drive through to get to somewhere else. My entire focus when I hit the Dairy Cone on 9W is to make it to the Sunoco near the bridge without getting stuck behind a truck or hitting too many potholes.
And, until a few weeks ago, I never stopped in the city.
However, Newburgh is the destination for one group of women from West Point and they continue to go back month after month.
The women who stop in Newburgh come as represe...
Read more...Posted on Thursday, 05-Nov-2009 17:59 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 10-1-2009
Tie a Pink Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
I have always been fascinated by the things people chose to put on their cars. Because of this, I tend to inch closer to bumpers that are covered with stickers. I don’t want to miss the punch line before the light changes.
Sometimes, I feel as if I can learn everybody’s life story from the magnetic ribbons, school spirit banners and pithy stickers they have selected to put on their vehicles.
I have always been a min...
Read more...Posted on Friday, 02-Oct-2009 12:57 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 09-03-2009
Searching for more than a job
With four kids in tow, ours was not a typical beginning to military life. My Army wife life started three years ago with my husband in graduate school and continued with our move last year to West Point. After we arrived, summer faded, the cool breezes of fall began and the winter I heard so much about was around the corner. But along with the change in weather, I decided to make some changes by going back to work.
I expected th...
Read more...Posted on Thursday, 03-Sep-2009 11:48 AM
A Spouse's Point of View 8-6-2009
I Love the Way You Move
Along my morning running route, I’ve noticed the signs of Families moving onto West Point. The stacks of cardboard boxes on the corner are a dead giveaway of who is staying up late at night armed with only an Allen wrench and a mug of coffee.
I try not to get distracted when I spot the “treasures” abandoned by the Families who have decided that the television, couch or rug that fit in the last place is just not nice enough to try to squeeze in...
Read more...Posted on Friday, 07-Aug-2009 09:07 AM
A Spouse’s Point of View 06-03-2009
Do you want to write the July and August “A Spouse’s Point of View” column? Read on to find out the details...
Last July, I met with the editor of the Pointer View and asked her if I could do a column about living as a spouse on West Point. I had been writing creative nonfiction pieces for anthologies and gift books–– mostly feel good stuff about being a mom, the impact of cancer on Families and stories about my life as a military spouse. But I looked forward to writing a column.Posted on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2009 15:10 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 05-06-2009
Truth, Justice and the American
Way
As a little girl, I wanted to be Wonder Woman. I would spin in front of my bedroom mirror over and over again expecting that (eventually) I would turn into my favorite superhero just as Lynda Carter did in the television show. But instead of my Strawberry Shortcake nightgown turning into Wonder Woman’s dazzling red, white and blue costume, I just ended up with a bad headache from spinning around too much.
Now, more than 25 years l...
Read more...Posted on Thursday, 07-May-2009 15:31 PM
A Spouse's Point of View 04-02-2009
(Editor’s Note: April is a chance to recognize the important role of children in military Families by celebrating the Month of the Military Child.)
I didn’t see how it happened, but I saw the fallout. The sound of the gasps made me look up from the kiss and drop lane to witness the disaster.
At the bottom of the final hill to school stood a group of children gathered around an unthinkable sight––birthday cupcakes that had crashed to ground.
But instead of sulking...
Read more...Posted on Thursday, 02-Apr-2009 14:51 PM