Like nomads, but with more stuff

Sunday we were up bright and early, thank you jet lag.  By the time we had eaten, showered everyone and played a bit the sun was up and w...

For our first jaunt out of Kazakhstan since arrival - Alex's February winter holiday (she also has/had weeks off in January, March and ...

Just got home from an amazing week in Barcelona.  Fresh air we could breathe! Sunshine! Beautiful sights, beaches, food! We'll be up...

It's been a while since we have flown a new airline or visited a new airport (Air Astana in-country travel excepted).  So let's tal...

This is what we were doing last night This is what Alex was doing last night.  

Not a typo.  The other important delivery last week was non-dairy cheese (Mozzarella flavor), called Teese , that proclaims itself to be sh...

I have lived overseas many times, even prior to the foreign service. Some of those times, I lived in places without access to cheeses n...

The foreign service provides an amazing benefit to people posted in countries where many American products are not available - the Consumab...

Leanne Brown is a food-studies scholar who wrote a book, Good and Cheap , that enables people on very tight budgets (think food stamps)...

I don't usually do resolutions. Sometimes I plan guidelines, the last two years I have participated in the "One Little Word" ...