Like nomads, but with more stuff

Early in the week we booked the babysitter. 7:00 pm on Friday evening we're still bantering back and forth "where do you want to g...

Last night for dinner we had steaks, snow peas, and baked potato. Halfway through the meal Terry looked at me and said "You know, thes...

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

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...

One of the many blessings of annual trips home is we appreciate our country in ways that people who don't leave it for extended periods...

It's summer in the foreign service, which means we are on a several week whirlwind trip to see as much family and as many friends as po...

There was a conference that was supposed to be held in Nepal, but then the earthquake happened, and it got moved to Istanbul.  And then I...

Well, picnics and fireworks and red, white and blue weren't in tonight's plan here in Astana but I did manage to get a little of ...

It has been quite a week for us, Astana Airport. It all started when my flight from Istanbul touched down at 6am on Friday morning. You...

One of the days we were in England we went into Hexham and it turns out a spring fete was going on.  There was live music in a park, and ...