In the past 30 months, we have moved across an ocean twice, and once across town. We will move again in 30 months. There are another three or four moves left before the option to retire. Here is my personal version of the emotional cycle of moving.

The Navy Lodge is so much more than a hotel, really. It's like a dorm for military families who are in the middle of moving from one location to another. 

Rachelle Arroyave says she was naïve when her husband left for his first tour in Iraq. “We didn’t even talk about it,” she says of the possibility that he could die.