Like nomads, but with more stuff

Alex has a friend at school who has one American parent. The school is English speaking, although they learn British English (and yes, ther...

The problem with being married to someone with artistic and design experience is that it is difficult to argue convincingly with them ab...

Today the kids went to Sunday rugby.  Beforehand Terry made a full breakfast and I started bread.  After we came back:  pumpkin puree, pump...

I know so many people around the world were excited and nervous at whatever time corresponded to midnight in D.C. on Monday, which was wh...

Zoltan is definitely more free with his affections than his sister. The other day they got the idea to make me birthday cards (6 weeks earl...

Astana is a relatively new city created in the middle of nowhere, with a lot of great open steppe around it and not much else. For the mos...

This was our first year of an embassy Halloween celebration that we hear is pretty common worldwide.  The offices decorated doors, staff g...

When a person walks into a room, turns around in a circle and comes back out saying "I couldn't find it!", we call that ...

This week I had my first business trip, to Almaty.  Part of my job is meeting with people doing work in different parts of Kazakhstan. It w...

The other night we went for dinner with friends. They speak better Russian than we do, so when the hostess asked something as we were handi...