http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/ A window into the world of military families from the perspective of a former Mrs. Lieutenant -- revisiting news events of 1970 against which the novel MRS. LIEUTENANT is set as well as events and information about military families and personnel today. en-us 2008-08-07T18:50:29+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Phyllis Zimbler Miller hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080807143954 The "Tell-Your-Own-Story" military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com in connection with Lifetime TV's Season 2 of ARMY WIVES has announced the contest winners. Their names and the winning essays can be read at www.YourMilitaryBlog.com. Some contest essays are especially compelling. And for that reason I want to share some of these essays with my blog readers. The essays that I'll be featuring are reprinted here with permission from YourMilitary.com. Here's an essay by ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-08-07T18:39:54+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080805165044 YourMilitary.com has announced the winners of the "Tell-Your-Own-Story" military spouse contest in connection with Lifetime Television's series ARMY WIVES. The winners' names and the winning essays are featured on www.YourMilitaryBlog.com and www.YourMilitarySpace.com. Story submissions of not more than 500 words featured the happiest or saddest or most significant moment as a military spouse. The spouses of personnel from all branches were eligible - Army (including Reservists and ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-08-05T20:50:44+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080805164848 I asked Anna Horner, who blogs at www.diaryofaneccentric.blogspot.com, to write a guest post after she talked about her father in the review she did of MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL on her blog (http://tinyurl.com/6z9cn6). I particularly appreciated her description of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because Sharon Gold visits this memorial in the epilogue of MRS. LIEUTENANT. I was seven months pregnant, with swollen ankles, sore feet, and an aching back. I hobbled a mile or ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-08-05T20:48:48+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080804143815 I asked Nancy Sutherland, sales director of Mary Kay, to write a guest post describing an important project that she is promoting. (She has her own blog at http://nancymkqueen.wordpress.com.) Imagine it's hot, sandy with a nice breeze but you're not at the beach AND you are wearing up to 100 pounds of gear! You're an American soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan! Today is pretty much like yesterday except you are one day closer to coming home to your family. It's the end of the day and your most ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-08-04T18:38:15+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080801133610 In my July 27th post (http://tinyurl.com/55zq2z), National Guardsman Big Tobacco (www.big-tobacco.blogspot.com) currently deployed in Iraq provided his response to my July 20th post about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military personnel (http://tinyurl.com/6eu789). In that same July 27th post I put forth an insight from my husband Mitch about biblical public ceremonies of expiation of guilt for killing in battle. Here's Big Tobacco's response to this July 27th post: Actually, I ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-08-01T17:36:10+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080717182851 Here's a guest post from Specialist Neil Gussman - he has quite an interesting story to tell about his military service. (When he's not training with the Army National Guard, he writes about the history of chemistry at Chemical Heritage Foundation, a museum and library of the history of chemistry and early science located in Center City Philadelphia.) And to read more of his writing, check out his blog at http://armynow.blogspot.com: When I first enlisted in the Air Force in January of ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-07-17T22:28:51+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/pzmiller/index.html#20080709150010 Here is a guest post sent today from Iraq by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Big Tobacco (check out his own blog at http://big-tobacco.blogspot.com): "Don't take this the wrong way, but people like me don't do things like that. So why do you?" I'm confused by this statement. I look across the table at my date. Her face is as perfect as a Russian doll. Her blond hair falls in ringlets around her shoulders. She is so beautiful that I am willing to forgive the question. Yet the question haunts ... Phyllis Zimbler Miller 2008-07-09T19:00:10+00:00