Like nomads, but with more stuff

 Things felt relatively normal this year - fewer than half the kids wearing masks and a sense that kids weren't being kept at home due t...

We'd been warned before heading to Calgary to save up for a new windshield or two. Chips, cracks, hairline fractures, the traffic kicke...

Calgary surprised me with the dearth of Hanukkah candles in December, so I was prepared to expect nothing in any store in the way of matz...

Well, OK, not exactly. What I did do was write a chapter in a book. Still a pretty big deal to me (and, I'm sure, to my mom). A Cup o...

... no, no, don't worry, Terry and I are fine. With 5 weeks to go in my tour things are winding down. Many of my kids' friends - ...

I had a business trip this week that required me to overnight in a hotel.  This was sitting on a shelf above the mini-bar, right nex...

There is a Russian saying "There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing." Between four years in St Petersburg and ...

Within 24 hours of beginning school at his British school, this was the conversation I had with my son: Me: Zoltan, did you leave your sw...

Kazakhstanis are known for kindness, generosity and tolerance.  Here's something I am really getting used to and will miss when we move...

When we were researching St Petersburg before moving to post, we read one random piece of advice to the effect that it's better to buy ...