I'm Already Home: Keeping Your Family Close When You're on TDY

Military families are especially vulnerable to separations. This book is an easy-to-follow, practical quide to fun and inexpensive ways for keeping service men and women connected to their families while they're away. It's an essential tool for military personnel preparing for active duty training. It also contains connection strategies tailored to the unique demands of the military family before, during and after deployment. This valuable guide will help lessen the impact of being apart from those we love.

Elaine Dumler is a corporate trainer and speaker who counsels businesses on how their employees and managers can improve their speaking and communication skills. She also advises business people on how they can bring balance to their lives by staying connected with their families.

She was a columnist in an international newsletter, and has been a featured guest on both radio and television. She is co-author of the book "Marketing for People NOT in Marketing", and has stories in two "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books.

She loves to quilt, hates to cook and travels about a third of her time for business where many of the ideas for the book came from.