Sentences with phrase «retired military wife»

good luck with it all and I hope your home sells quickly for you, being a retired military wife I remember those joyful moves.

Not exact matches

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Besides Dr. Theophilus and his wife, there were the chaplain of the military cantonment and his wife; a retired woman principal of a girls» school, dressed in an immaculate white sari; and some other people associated with the local church.

Let me explain... My wife is from Newfoundland Canada and we visit 2 - 8 weeks (spread over a few visits) per year depending on where we are living at the time, when I retire from the military, our visits will be more frequent and likely longer.