Notable
Senator Collins' Newsletter, January 2012
Senator Collins has Dinner with the Smileys
WABI, November, 2011
Military Moms, Part I
Military.com, September 2008
"Ms. Smiley is most eloquent when writing about the joys and chall enges of parenthood...Yet, she's not afraid to take the military to task for its shortcomings—especially its bureaucratic culture."
The Virginian-Pilot, August 3, 2008
Feature
Military Wife’s Life Pays Off with Book
Pensacola News Journal, April 2008
News Article
"Local author, Sarah Smiley, continues to put [Pensacola, FL] on the map."
Military Spouse Magazine, Sept/Oct 2007
Feature
Sarah Smiley tops list of "Who's Who of Military Spouses"
Navy Wife Talk Radio, June 12, 2007
Link to archived interview here.
An Officer and a Gentleman, May 2007
Sarah Smiley and husband Dustin are featured in an interview in the bonus section of the 25th re-release of An Officer and a Gentleman.
Panama City News Herald, May 2, 2007
News Article
"Relocation makes us closer because we only have each other."
Pensacola News Journal, May 16, 2007
News Article
Military Wives Honored for Volunteering Efforts
GOSPORT, May 18, 2007
News Article
Navy League Honors Military Spouses of the Year
CNN American Morning w/Soledad O'Brien, October 25 & 27, 2006
Live Interview
Prescription Iraq Two-part live interview. TRANSCRIPT 1; TRANSCRIPT 2
Woman's Day, October 5, 2006
Feature
"Be Your Best You," featuring advice from Smiley about handling rejection with humor.
Herald Dispatch, June 27, 2006
Review of Going Overboard
Funny and very real. Exactly as I remember military wives...military spouses, for necessary reasons of survival are a separate culture.
WKRG News 5, June 19, 2006
Live Interview
Local Author May Have Created Sitcom. "The book is funny, and serious, and universal...you don't have to be military to read it. And Smiley's view of her world is clearly stated."
Chicago Tribune, June 18, 2006
News Article
New in Paperback: A columnist's view of life as a military wife.
Fox News Studio B w/Trace Gallagher, March 19, 2006
Live Interview
Who is this model military wife, and why am I supposed to be like her?
CBS The Early Show, March 17, 2007
Taped Feature
Military Wife's Writing Strikes Chord: "She's been criticized for revealing too much, speaking, for instance, about deployment demons such as infidelity."
News Brief
Days of Our Lives: A new generation of military wives--defying the unwritten rule that you don't whine about your husband's job--are sharing their deployment woes in books.
MarketWatch, December 19, 2005
Commentary
"[Nightline's] segment on military wife-turned-author Sarah Smiley was well presented..."
ABC's Nightline, December 13, 2005
Taped Feature
On the Homefront: "I'll say it and take the heat so everyone else can feel normal."
The Bob and Tom Radio Show, December 12, 2005
"I knew you'd be this perky"
CNN Sunday Morning, December 11, 2005
Live Interview
"[Sarah is] really quite frank and honest about what it's like."
Eye on Books, November 2005
"It took my mother about two weeks to get over reading the book."
The Virginian-Pilot, Beacon, November 20, 2005
Feature
Writer Shares Learning Experiences with First Colonial Students: "The students [at First Colonial High School] had taken away Smiley's message of guts. Because that's what it takes [to be a writer]."
Philadelphia City Paper, November 17, 2005
Book Review
Wishin' and Hopin': "Smiley's not afraid to question the tight-lipped culture she inhabits, not the government's decisions about Iraq."
MSNBC Live, November 11, 2005
Live Interview
"Service members go and serve so we can stay behind and question the politics."
The Hartford Courant, November 11, 2005
News Article
War-Tested Marriages: "There is always that underlying sense of how dangerous our spouse's job is. That he might not come home."
New York Times Magazine, November 6, 2005
Confessions of a Military Wife, by Alex Witchel: "When it doesn't work out, it's like being excommunicated from the church. You're gone."
BookReporter.com, November 2005
Book Review
"Going Overboard is [Smiley's] first book; hopefully there will be more to come."
The Florida Times-Union, November 2, 2005
Book Review
Losing it and Going Overboard: "Laugh-out-loud humor and poignant honesty set this memoir apart. It takes a brave woman to toss her laundry out there for everyone in the country to see."
Soundings Newspaper, November 2, 2005
Feature
Book Inspiration for Proposed TV Sitcom: "Sarah Smiley may no longer be able to write about how her two sons wear the UnderRoos on top of their clothing."
The Virginian-Pilot, October 31, 2005
Feature
Navy Wife/Columnist Gives Funny, Frank Look at Deployment: "[Smiley] wants to lift what she says is still a taboo about expressing unhappiness with a military lifestyle, especially while so many members of the military are at war."
Pensacola News Journal, October 25, 2005
Feature
Columnist Ready to Promote First Book: "[Smiley] has become the voice of a long-ignored minority--the homefront housewife."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 28, 2004
News Article
The Navy Wife: "Military wives are afraid to reach out because they fear they'll be labeled a failure."
