Ali­son Buck­holtz wrote the ​“Deploy­ment Diary” col­umn for Slate​.com, and her oth­er arti­cles and essays on mil­i­tary life have been pub­lished in The New York Times, New York Mag­a­zine, Real Sim­ple, Par­ent­ing, Wash­ing­ton­ian Mag­a­zine, Salon​.com and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. As an advo­cate for mil­i­tary fam­i­lies, she has appeared on NBC Night­ly News, NPR, and in nation­al news stories.