Fabulous Army Life

Happy Military Monday to all of our service members and their Families out there! I love all of the initiatives that have sprung up on social media sites to honor our service member heroes! How can you celebrate "Military Monday," you ask? These are a few of my favorites. Try a few to get started! Twitter If you're on Twitter, just add the hashtag "#militarymon" to any tweet about the military on Mondays ~ Honoring our military one tweet at a time each and every Monday on Twitter starting at 0001 Kabul. This is a non-partisan place to honor the military with no official affiliation to an organization or non-profit. For a little more on the #militarymon hashtag, see: http://wthashtag.com/Militarymon Also, you can watch all the #militarymon tweets on: http://hashtags.org/tag/militarymon Facebook Join the "#MilitaryMon" fan page on Facebook to keep up with all the great things happening on Mondays. You can also participate in the Moment of...

In many ways, I’m an “all or nothing” kind of girl. With new technology, I tend to hold out, thinking “I don’t need that” and have nothing to do with it at all … until I try it out … just a little … then I’m hooked. I go all-out, diving in head first without looking back. Case in point: facebook. I remember thinking what kind of book of faces would be helpful to me in any way? I simply disregarded facebook as something for a younger generation (subconsciously pondering the fact I used a term like ‘younger generation’ – ouch!) and nothing I needed to know. Then I heard it in a conversation, it was referenced in an email, a friend asked if I was “on facebook” … so naturally, I had to check it out to see what it was about. Just a peek. Well, hundreds of posts and dozens of photo albums later … I’m hooked. It's a great way for me to keep in touch with Army friends across the globe ... and nothing beats those "Welcome Home" photo albums! Same story, second chapter … T...