All posts by: Liz Giertz

Are You Running on Empty?

I’m not sure which is more nerve-wracking: keeping young children from playing in the street, teaching your older child how to drive, or letting her drive alone. My teen daughter......

Take a Knee

There is something special about a military ceremony. All those Soldiers marching in formation. Eyes focused on the commander. Ears attentive to the bugle call. Shoes and brass glinting in......

Homecoming

There is nothing quite like a homecoming ceremony. It doesn’t even have to be my own husband returning to make joy leak from my eyes and smear my mascara. After......

Finding Peace in Troubling Times

  I laced up my boots and straightened my starched uniform every morning as I left for work before the sun rose above the horizon. I was a Soldier and......