From the Military Spouse-to-Spouse page on SarahSmiley.com:
When my husband is away, and phone calls are far and few between, I keep a "phone call journal," which I keep with me and jot down subjects or fun things I would like to share with him, as well as questions I need to ask.
Here is a selection of great journals to use as your own Deployment Phone Journal, or just to keep your sharing ideas and thoughts with your military spouse abroad.
Book of Us by Kate Marshall, David Marshall
The Book of Us presents 150 topics for you and your spouse to answer and share. Questions range from "Before I met you, my love life was..." to "One of the reasons I think we lasted so long as a couple is..."
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"Spill It Sister Journal" by Anne Taintor
Paperback: 128 pages
Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.0 x 0.5 inches
It's So Involved Being Me Organizer by Anne Taintor
Spiral-bound: 184 pages
Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
Blank Writing Journal: Sunrise by Nodin Press (2004)
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN: 1932472207
Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
About Sarah Smiley:
Sarah Smiley is the author of Shore Duty, a syndicated newspaper column that reaches more than 2 million weekly, and of the memoir GOING OVERBOARD: The Misadventures of a Military Wife (Penguin/New American Library).
Sarah has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, USAA Magazine, U.25 and on national television programs such as MSNBC's Live.
Sarah has been a Navy dependent for more than 29 years, or, as she likes to say, "All but six weeks of my life." She is the daughter of Lindell Rutherford, a career Navy pilot, and spent most of her upbringing amid the aircraft carriers and Navy bases in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
www.sarahsmiley.com/keeping_a_deployment_journal.htm
