Brenda Corey Dunne

My baby clematis peeking over the fence In our family we have a saying--well, several sayings actually--that revolve around postings/PCS...

FIVE REASONS MILITARY CHILDREN ARE AWESOME: About two weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting in a local elementary school, listening t...

After this morning's Facebook post (which, by the way was entirely serious) I thought I'd sit down and write out a Dunne list of mi...

Dear Teacher, Coach, Instructor, Leader, Responsible Adult, You don't know me--not yet, anyway--but you just met my daughter. You know...

The following is cut and pasted from my older blog (This Mom is Overdunne), originally posted five years ago in July of 2010. At the time my...

There's been a lot of discussion in the Canadian media this past week about sexual misconduct in the military environment. Our Chief of ...

Make new friends, But keep the old, One is silver-  and the other gold.  ~ Anonymous Yes, it's that time of year again. The...

I've haven't posted much on my Military Monday blogs over the past few weeks, not for lack of things to post about, but because I ha...

So, this morning I was surfing through twitter and I saw this tweet: There's still time to nominate an author for the 2015 Lieutenant...

Happy New Year! The presents are open, the parties are over and the kids are back to school. Let me just say that you have not seen holid...

Lewis Ward Love 1895-1918 This man was my great uncle. I never knew him. Little is known about his life, and even less is known about ...

Those of you who follow my Facebook posts will have seen the small issue I had with a comment made on my blog last week. (You can find it HE...

Today I begin the long Season of See-You-Laters. I say season , because goodbye doesn't happen all at once (as most frequent-movers ...

As I write this, I'm sitting here on my newly-installed porch swing, looking over my just-constructed flower garden underneath new h...

PHASE FIVE: THE LONG WAIT Everything is ready . The house is clean. The plans are made. The signs are up and our stash and dash is pe...

Maybe we could just move here? The Dunnes at the Universal Studios. As usually happens, my hubby received his posting orders at the mom...

Of course we all know that time is fluid , sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down. And no where is this more true than in a military...

Hurry up and wait . The mantra of military folk everywhere. The Dunne family are still in a holding pattern, so I won't bore you wit...

Phase Two: Closet Clean-out Orders Received yet?   No. Estimated TTD : Narrowing it down, but no orders, no point. Our junk i...

PART 3 OF A 3 PART SERIES One of the many problems for military spouses attempting to embark on a new career path is the difficulty in ob...