About

The dreaded “about” page.

I am a 40-something, mother of four who was born to com­mu­ni­cate. If it’s not com­ing out of my mouth then it’s being writ­ten by my hands. I was born before there were home com­put­ers. I talked on the phone for at least 87.5% of my teenage exis­tence. The rest of that time was spent gab­bing with girl­friends in person.

When I found myself attached to the Army at the hip — you know hus­band and two sons, I began writ­ing about my jour­ney through sep­a­ra­tions and deploy­ments. I never faced deploy­ment with the hus­band, but have been through 2 now with my old­est son who is cur­rently still in Iraq. Some days we won­der if the Army has for­got­ten that he was only on loan to them.

Since I love to talk and com­mu­ni­cate I also write a lot about my faith in Jesus Christ. Yes, I am a Chris­t­ian extrem­ist. I believe I am a sin­ner. wor­thy of God’s wrath, but saved by the most amaz­ing Grace of the One True, Amaz­ing God! I love the Bible and study it daily. It is not just a part of who I am, but as C. S. Lewis once said “I believe in Chris­tian­ity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see every­thing else.”

I own and have writ­ten the major­ity of arti­cles on Knee Deep in the Hooah (my orig­i­nal mil­i­tary site) and Tuesday’s Child (my site for writ­ing about my faith and shar­ing my homilet­ics). I was very blessed to have con­tri­bu­tions of sig­nif­i­cant con­tent from two dear friends — Brat from Asso­luta Tran­quil­lita and Hank from Devil Dog Brew.

Other places where I con­tribute reg­u­larly are All Mil­i­tary, You Served, and Chris­t­ian Mil­i­tary Wives.

There is a car­toon­ist I have a crush on. His name is Damon and he draws the car­toon Delta Bravo Sierra. We are mar­ried by the way, so it’s OK with my hus­band that I think he’s awe­some. He also has a great online gallery show­cas­ing some of his work. Cas­sidy House Gallery is only a small rep­re­sen­ta­tion of his incred­i­ble talent.

Damon and I are work­ing on a new car­toon con­cept. I am writ­ing the scripts and he is con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing the art for it. The toon will be based on the antics of our very imag­i­na­tive, exu­ber­antly defi­ant, very cre­ative and extremely strong-willed daugh­ter, Emma. Keep your eyes open for notices about that car­toon in the future. It will be fam­ily friends and tar­geted at fam­i­lies and Chris­t­ian audiences.

I also have another project in the mak­ing. Patti Kat­ter, founder of Chris­t­ian Mil­i­tary Wives, and I will be work­ing on a book together in the near future. We are not sure yet where that will take us, but I can guar­an­tee you that as soon as we have clar­ity so will you.

As always with my life… to be con­tin­ued, updated, and/or retracted at any point.