Spouses
It's that time. You've waited many difficult months to see your friend, soul mate, spouse. You envision the both of you romping through a field of daisies in formal clothes to embrace while a classical music theme plays in the background. What you get is a crowded military installation thrumming with activity,
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The stories are becoming familiar and plentiful. They are the stories of soldiers watching their buddies' lives taken away and then walking away with sorrow, remorse, and sometimes crippling guilt. Just how does a soldier who accidentally kills a child or other innocent bystander in the cross fire deal with that event
Jobs
A brief search of federal jobs available on USAJobs.com, a site listing federal jobs, showed more than 15,000 jobs available. This number doesn't necessarily include state and local civil service jobs that can offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits of the armed forces. One of these jobs could have your name
Resources
After Kevin Butler was injured falling into power lines, his wife saw three lapels in the doorway: There was a casualty assistance officer, rear detachment commander, and chaplain. But her eyes never left the lapel of the chaplain as she was informed of the fact that her husband had been involved
Operation Family Support
When things get rough when your spouse is deployed in the war zone, she's the person you go to for support. Possibly, you might be the person she goes to for support during her rough days. But some days you wonder. As you help her, are you finding your own anxieties rising even
Health
In the 20 years that Claudia Mattingly was a dependent, she utilized her medical benefits at Madigan Army Medical Center. "I had no problems with military health care," she said. But she allows that had she known then what she knows now about civilian medical care, given that she works for
Children
You wake up at 4 a.m., knowing you'll have to be functional throughout the day. But the wails coming from the room across the hall can't be ignored. You step into the dark room to soothe your child from her nightmare. As she whimpers in your arms, she lets out
Children
Trista Huckleberry, a University of Washington Tacoma assistant professor with a PhD in psychology, has extensive education and experience in child development matters. She spent time with The Ranger to help shed some light on coping when deployments result in disabilities. TRISTA HUCKLEBERRY: When parents return from deployment injured, the child's reaction
Children
In 2004, a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, fired a shot that would alter the Villanueva family forever. Catressa Villanueva, Staff Sgt. Javier Villanueva’s wife, explains the incident simply: “They went on a patrol and were ambushed. A sniper fired a shot that shattered the tibia and fibula in his left
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SiteWorks 2009 will not be the type of dance recital your grandma might envision. She might imagine herself nestled in a comfy theater seat with lights dimming as a group of 4-year-olds in tutus bumbles out from the wings. What she’s more likely to see in Siteworks are dancers of
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In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit to some confusion upon receiving this week’s Metal-Urge story assignment. Doesn’t my editor realize there are far better people than I to write about music? And doesn’t he realize that I am a bit more disposed toward classical music — despite
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Sunday, June 7 the Brick City Project will teem with kids. But don’t even think they’re up to no good: these youths, part of the Fab 5 urban arts program L.I.F.E., are putting on a show that will mix up a slew of hip-hop art and culture into a great
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Sure, I knew about King’s Books’ Graphic Novel Book Club held every second Monday at the 1022 South lounge, and I knew, vaguely, that there was this whole, huge genre of literature that combined comic-book frame-by-frame action (and art) with all the literary finesse of the all-words/no-pictures books I felt
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When you attend the book talk about untamed women of the Olympic wilderness at the Washington State History Museum on Thursday, May 21, you might be tempted to think, “But we have our very own untamed women here in the wilds of Tacoma!” And, of course, you’d be right to think
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When you attend the book talk about untamed women of the Olympic wilderness at the Washington State History Museum on Thursday, May 21, you might be tempted to think, “But we have our very own untamed women here in the wilds of Tacoma!” And, of course, you’d be right to think
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Most of what I know about the word “Cabaret” comes from a memory: Me, in my babysitter, Mrs. Hathaway’s teal-blue, shag-carpeted living room with a wall-sized photomural of a madrona tree and built-in benches, watching TV as a song, “bye-bye, mein liebe herr” etches itself into my brain. The lady
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Most of what I know about the word “Cabaret” comes from a memory: Me, in my babysitter, Mrs. Hathaway’s teal-blue, shag-carpeted living room with a wall-sized photomural of a madrona tree and built-in benches, watching TV as a song, “bye-bye, mein liebe herr” etches itself into my brain. The lady
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Just add wine Tacoma has always delighted me with its uncanny ability to present The Random. And when The Random mixes it up with wine, I become positively giddy. One longtime random wine haunt of mine has been the Chevron gas station off Pearl Street near Point Defiance Park. While I loved
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Just add wine Tacoma has always delighted me with its uncanny ability to present The Random. And when The Random mixes it up with wine, I become positively giddy. One longtime random wine haunt of mine has been the Chevron gas station off Pearl Street near Point Defiance Park. While I loved
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As stated on our blog Spew a few weeks ago, Kate Monthy, creative director and principal teacher at MLKBallet, made an announcement that she’ll be moving to San Francisco. The move is tentatively scheduled for the fall but could be delayed as a gig dancing for the 5th Avenue Theatre
