What 5 Decades Taught Me About The Season Of Friendship

TAKING OFF THE ARMOR
5 min readMay 22
Sunset with the silouette of 6 friends standing with arms outstretched in various ways.
Photo by Chang Duong on Unsplash

I had all intentions of a completely different topic for this week’s blog until I sat with my daughter last night.

She was pretty quiet all weekend. I chalked it up to the end-of-the-school-year chaos and that she just needed a little downtime. When we sat down to watch a movie, I noticed she was pretty sad and wanted a lot of snuggles. When I asked Bianca what was…

TAKING OFF THE ARMOR

Hi! I am a Veteran, Mom, nurse, writer, educator, blogger, and podcaster. Here to share issues impacting military transition. (Which impacts civilians too.)