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Warsaw: Five Pros and Cons
“Five Pros and Cons” posts are something of a Foreign Service tradition. So, here’s my personal take on Warsaw for anyone who may be thinking of bidding on, or accepting an assignment here. Pro # 1:...
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I went to Zambia for that peanut butter
Once upon a time, shortly after our arrival in Prague, a first-time corporate expatriate spouse came over for coffee. Now, on top of being totally new to overseas life, she was really wasn’t the...
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Not Looking Back
In which our Foreign Service life is capped off with a white supremacist speech by a ridiculous orange man.
View ArticleIn Which I Unexpectedly Win an Award and Predictably Have Something to Say...
The speech I made in my head while receiving the Tragen award at the AAFSW Awards ceremony.
View ArticleThe Christmas Curve Part Deux
Three years ago, in 2014, I blogged about how our Christmases have changed over the years. The Christmas Curve was about how our tiny newlywed tree nearly three decades ago grew into a Beast over the...
View ArticleWell Hello There, 2018
This blog has slowed down a lot lately. That may be a good thing! I started blogging almost ten years ago, just as we were gearing up to move back overseas after seven years in the States. I was plenty...
View ArticleLanguage Bubbles
When we got back to the States, I wanted to try something new. After all those years of struggling in foreign languages, I figured I had some perspective on learning English as a second language. And...
View ArticleMarie Kondo: a Foreign Service Perspective
The last 30 years of my life have involved a lot of dealing with Stuff. Nineteen moves, people. Nineteen! Capped off with moving into our “forever home” after retirement from the Foreign Service. This...
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