Making Home Your Haven
Making home the haven. Now that sounds nice, doesn’t? But is it easy? Hell no, at least not at first. But the fact is, if you’ve married a police officer,...Read More
Category: Police Family Life
What are the three biggest challenges of being a police spouse? A LEOW candidly shares.
What are the three biggest challenges of being a police spouse? A LEOW candidly shares. Any police spouse reading the headline will likely say, "You only came up with three?...Read More
Selective Outrage & Armchair Activism
You're Not Going to Like This Post. And I'm not sorry. The good news is, you don't have to read it, like it, agree with it, or share it. So,...Read More
Learning To Stay Above The Fray (An Open Letter)
Let Me Start By Saying... Obviously, by my many posts, you know I'm a wee bit opinionated. Not in a dick-ish way (I hope, at least), just in a "I've...Read More
I Am The Fraction (A Police Wife’s Vent)
I Am The Fraction A Police Wife's Vent By ModernMelly World Gone Mad I saw a meme yesterday of a man sitting in a chair, popcorn in lap, watching wide-eyed...Read More
Dear Cop-Hater
Dear Cop Hater By ModernMelly My 'Open Letter' Dear Cop hater/basher/anti-law enforcement wing nuts, Hey there. So, you don't like cops, hmmm? Okay, well, I thought I'd take a moment...Read More
I Can Only Imagine
I felt compelled today to take a moment and write a passage that speaks to a phrase I find myself often saying to my husband when hearing about things that have...Read More
The New Normal
Normal. What is that, exactly? By simple definition, normal is : "the usual, average, or typical state or condition" of something. Normal used include conversations where, when someone asked what my...Read More
Home is The Haven: Police Family Life
Making home the haven. Now that sounds nice, doesn't? But is it easy? Hell no, at least not at first. But the fact is, if you've married a police officer,...Read More
Online Job Application: Police Wife
So I have to preface this post with an explanation: Last week my husband and I were having a difference of opinion- okay, fine, a bit of an argument really-...Read More
Thank You, From A Police Wife
Anyone that reads my stories knows I love social media, Facebook particularly, and that I start my day by reading my Facebook wall like it's the morning paper. In my...Read More
We Have Forgotten
I admit it. I hash-tagged "Never Forget" this morning, posted it on social media along with one of the many, many, heart breaking photos from September 11, 2011. Then I...Read More
Stop (SAYING) ‘Police’ Brutality
My husband and I, we live simply. We don't like ambiguity, don't tolerate intolerable behavior, we weigh our words carefully, we think before we speak. We do all of this, not with...Read More
You Think You Know Me (Because Once, You Knew Me)
You Think You Know Me (Because Once, You Knew Me) by ModernMelly A funny thing happened when I began dating my husband: I changed. At least, that's how some people...Read More
If I Had A Soundtrack To My Life
As you, of course know (because you follow my blog so devoutly. Wink, wink.) I am a police loving, lipstick wearing, Steve Perry obsessed, I Love You, Man drinker, who...Read More
Police Wife
I know, it seems you've been hearing quite a lot from us lately. I also know that we probably seem extreme to you, the general public, or the “quiet” wives....Read More
Life Lessons I’ve Learned By Being A Police Wife
My husband and I met over a dozen years ago, through a dating website. We both, come to find out, just wanted to try something out of our comfort zones,...Read More
Thoughts on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
*Revised. This is a post from last year, however, it holds true today and always. For us- Police Families- National Law Enforcement Appreciation is an every day thing, but for...Read More
My Blue Family
My Blue Family To my Blue Family- My husband is one of yours. He calls you his brothers and sisters. So that makes you mine as well. I claim you...Read More