There are days when the noise is too loud—when the talk of new wars, sacrifice, and uncertainty makes even something as simple as a cup of tea with a silly hat-wearing friend feel impossible. And still, we show up. We love. We try. We endure.
This online monologue writing class with playwright Amy Uptgraft will enable you to share your own military spouse story from your heart to script.
This November, grab your seat as VSP returns to the stage in Knoxville, TN for a LIVE-THEATRE, STAGED READING of military spouse stories captured by Amy Uptgraft in the debut performance of in*Between.
This online monologue writing class with playwright Amy Uptgraft will enable you to share your own military spouse story from your heart to script.
(Bonus 15/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett talks about how their lives were changed when her husband, Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., received the Medal of Honor in this final BONUS Stories We Tell: Jeannie Puckett installment from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(14/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett reflects on gratitude as she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., navigate through his diagnosis of Parkinson’s in this fourteenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(13/14) This poem of grief was written by Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett the year after she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., lost their daughter, Jean, to cancer in this thirteenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(12/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett describes the life events that followed after she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., made the decision to seek change and move back to Georgia in this twelfth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(11/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett details retirement life after her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., shifts his family to civilian life and its unexpected stressors in this eleventh of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(10/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett discusses the difficulties she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., faced in trying to find the best schools for their military children in this tenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
Veterans Spouse Project (VSP) is the only nonprofit arts organization in the nation working to give voice to the experiences of military spouses through theatre and creative arts. Learn more about how to share, connect, listen, and create with us in your community.