by Jessica Scott | Dec 30, 2010 | army mom, army officers, company command, deployment, Fort Hood, Iraq, leadership, military mom, moms at war, Predeployment, redeployment, Uncategorized, working mom
New Years is a time for resolutions. Honestly, I’m not big on them. There’s just something futile in telling myself this will be the year that i do x. I make them, as many people probably do but then I promptly forget about them as the daily grind gets...
by Jessica Scott | Nov 28, 2010 | army mom, army officers, company command, deployment, Fort Hood, leadership, Predeployment, Uncategorized, working mom
My agent passed this along to me and thought it would be something my readers might enjoy. I don’t have an attribution other than the original poster is a retired VietNam Vet who served as a pilot. If anyone has proper citations, I’d love to have it but...
by Jessica Scott | Nov 1, 2010 | army mom, army officers, company command, Fort Hood, leadership, Uncategorized
Okay, nearly three weeks into my adventure as a company commander, I can finally come up for air and talk a little bit about it. First, its insanely busy. From the moment I took the guidon, I feel like I’ve been playing catch up and am still about a hundred yards...
by Jessica Scott | Sep 2, 2010 | army officers, company command, Fort Hood, leadership, Uncategorized, women at war
So the last couple weeks I’ve been reading LIVING IN THE END TIMES by Slavoj Zizek. Yesterday, I started reading JUSTICE by Michael Sandel. I freely admit that Zizek’s book was over my head in many cases. There were large sections that I had no earthly idea what...
by Jessica Scott | Aug 26, 2010 | army mom, army officers, deployment, Fort Hood, Uncategorized
Well, today was the day. I’ve got to tell you, looking at myself wearing those captains bars is REALLY weird. I mean, really. I already talked about what I thought this meant yesterday but today, thought I’d do a rare thing and share some photos. Hope you...
by Jessica Scott | Aug 4, 2010 | army mom, army officers, empowering parents, Fort Hood, leadership, military mom, RWA Nationals, social networking, Uncategorized, working mom, Writing
I’ve been trying to get the words right to describe my first conference but it seems like nothing has stopped long enough for me to actually get them down. My agent wants another synopsis for a second book. I just sold another article to the RWA. In the last three...