Xanthe's World

The Kaiserslautern Kindergraves Memorial Foundation will sign a new lease with the city of Kaiserslautern, Germany this spring to preserve t...

I found this article, When a Parent Goes to War ,” on the Families United Military Kids Blog , and though it doesn’t offer either the name o...

This is a really sweet story out of Belton, Texas.   University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students spent a week recently building playhouses fo...

I ran across another book that seems to be a good resource for military children dealing with parents who have experienced trauma.  Though ...

It’s hard enough to admit problems at home, especially ones that might be perceived as shameful or signs of weakness or  failure. For milita...

Stephanie Himel-Nelson is the Communications Director for Blue Star Families , a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting...

One of the great joys in my own life has always been reading, and to me the little library in the small town I grew up in was a magical plac...