Like nomads, but with more stuff

In all our years living overseas, we have always had exactly one car. In the U.S. there are always many, many justifications that ensure we...

Each child has spent a large part of this evening entirely encased in a sleeping bag. First they wandered around testing out life as an inc...

Sometime around the pre-election season I had to quit NPR and started listening to podcasts instead. As I got further in German I started l...

We've coined a new term tonight.  I knew I was making a meal the kids have steadfastly and continually failed to enjoy. So, I pulled ou...

One of the kids, kicking a tree: Look, I'm a footpecker! Terry to me, after he shared an article and started a conversation about...

FSI is like a college campus on reunion weekend, every day. Where else do you find so many adults with jeans and backpacks?  I'm gues...

One thing that gets tricky for a foreign service family living in a country with a volatile currency is the subject of allowance. In the 18...

What did we do on summer vacation? We spent as much time at the cabin as humanly possible, although as always it wasn't enough. Cabin...

Last week we received a letter from the IRS and a $1.00 check. Yes the decimal is in the right place, we got a check for $1.00.  Today we g...

I have Travel Orders!And a housing assignment! And flight reservations, sort of!  Last week I was able to apply for my and Zoltan's pas...

There's always so much to complain about, right? Well that isn't today's episode around here. I'm talking about the Emergen...

In the wake of my announcement, there's been a decent volume of questions and it seemed useful to answer them here. So here goes, in no...

Yesterday's Wordless Wednesday was a photo of our freezer. You can see the ironing board on one side, and a folding chair folded up on ...

My first week of A-100 has drawn to a close. We have heard the expression "it's like drinking from a fire hose" a million tim...

Back when we thought I would start working in January we started to load up the freezer with dinners and leftovers to make weeknight mealti...

Somewhere in my youth, or childhood ....  my parents bought me one bright shiny share of IBM stock. It came as a nifty actual piece of pape...

Nobody likes Comcast. Normally, we don't like Comcast. But I am forced to admit that actually have the capability to do the right thing...

But I loooove my kitchen cart. I will confidently state that it adds 20% more counter and cabinet space to our kitchen. Thanks mom for the...

So Tuesday actually started Monday when Zoltan fell backwards off the couch onto the coffee table and gashed his head right at bedtime. We ...