The Blue Star Families Blog has Moved!

We’ve rolled out the new website for Blue Star Families!  We’ve created a new site with a place for every active duty, reserve or national guard military family member to Support, Connect and Empower. The new site features a new Blue Star Voices blog and posts on a wide variety of topics.  If you’re new [...]

Sheila Casey on Finding Balance in the Military

Please welcome guest blogger, veteran military spouse and BSF Advisory Board member, Sheila Casey. I have been a military spouse for 39 years. During that time I have experienced all the same things each one of you have…raising a family, moving, deployments, reintegration, children changing schools, volunteering and making lifelong friendships. It has not always been [...]

Work Life vs. Marine Wife

Please welcome Anna Maria Manino, a marine wife and full time working woman.  She’s also the BSF Co-Director of Communications. I’m sitting at my desk on a Thursday afternoon, trying to ignore the snail’s pace of the clock. Suddenly my cellphone rings and it’s my White Knight. My excitement at a break from the boredom [...]

The Home Sweet Home Campaign

Please welcome guest poster Beth VanHoose from the Home Sweet Home Campaign. Be sure to read below the fold for a special discount for military families! The Home Sweet Home Campaign was born from a genuine motivation, inspired by Tim and Nicole Little, who reside in Queen Creek AZ.  Tim, an Army reservist, has served [...]

A New Home for Blue Star Families!

We’re rolling out the new website for Blue Star Families today!  We’ve created a new site with a place for every active duty, reserve or national guard military family member to Support, Connect and Empower. The new site features a new Blue Star Voices blog and posts on a wide variety of topics.  If you’re [...]

Weekly Round-Up for August 25, 2009

Weekly News Round-Up All the Latest in Everything Blue Star Families Welcome!  We’ve had another busy week with our new Military Families Voter Registration survey, ideas for helping kids during deployments and involvement in some powerful articles.  Read all about it, and many other cool things happening in the BSF world below. We are working [...]

You Are a Seller in a Buyer’s Market: A Resume Can Be a Viable Tool to Secure an Interview

By Christine Brugman, MAOM MSCCN European Applicant & Military Installations’ Liaison A Résumé Can Be a Viable Marketing Tool to Secure an Interview No one likes writing their résumé. It catalogs and records what we’ve done, how we’ve done it, and what the results were from doing it, not from a purely historical perspective but [...]

If At First You Don’t Succeed…REVAMP, REVAMP, REVAMP!

by Cachet B. Prescott, MA, Applied Psychology, MA, Sociology, Adjunct Faculty Member, Park University and MSCCN Education Liaison. From our friends at MSCCN. For those in job search mode, the process can sometimes prove to be daunting and even downright disheartening at times. You send out what seems like a million cover letters and resumes [...]

War’s Silent Stress: The Family at Home

War’s Silent Stress: The Family at Home originally appeared on the Opinion page of the Virginian Pilot on August 9, 2009. MUCH LIKE the news of servicemen killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan, last month’s news of the death of a military spouse at Ft. Bragg made only local headlines. A 40-year-old Army wife, [...]

A Peace Sign

Welcome, Allison Buckholtz, author of Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War.  She lives in the Washington, DC suburbs with her two young children; her husband is currently serving a 12-month deployment in the Middle East. (Originally published at Alison’s Deployment Diary on Double X.) “What are you [...]