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This is Chapter 5 in the Grief Memoir. Catch up with previous chapters here.
Barbara Ann (Perpich) Lubin died on February 6, 2021. She was 63 years old. A military brat, she was born in Germany before moving stateside and living in Virginia, Georgia, and Oklahoma. Her parents returned to her mother’s home state of Arizona after a long military career. Barbara loved Arizona deeply and became one of its biggest champions.

This is Chapter 4 in the Infertility Memoir. Read previous chapters here.
With the weight lifted from sharing our infertility struggles with family, I started to feel a shift. After seeing a post about Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day, I finally felt like I wasn’t the only person struggling with infertility or who had experienced the gutwrenching pain that came from experiencing miscarriages. It felt like the clouds were lifting and I could see others who experienced what I was experiencing.

A group of disabled veterans dominated an international hockey tournament in Denmark last week, though the win wasn’t the greatest part of their journey. Rather, it was the opportunity to reconnect with a part of themselves they’d thought they’d lost since leaving the military. 
Team USA took home the win during the international hockey tournament, Battle of Jutland 2024, over the weekend. This is the tournament’s second iteration and Marine Corps and Army veteran Justin Rose’s second time competing, but he said it’s not just about hockey.