Like nomads, but with more stuff

Technically, they are home and no longer bounding.  Terry and the kids went to Berlin during the kids' spring holiday last week while I...

We finally headed south as a family for the long weekend over Women's Day. Although Terry and I had both gotten to Almaty for work, ...

This week the market was particularly exciting. Since October, fruit has been pretty predictable. Apples, pears, oranges, mandarin (cleme...

As we stare at our last few months, we realized there are many things in Astana we'd been holding off on checking out. But now there...

In child raising there are the obvious milestones we celebrate as they inch closer towards independence:  when they can walk, dress themsel...

The other day Terry and I had what I've started calling "a spirited discussion" about how much travel is actually likely when...

Astana does boast a few decent restaurants.  We hadn't found anything to write home about, though, until now.  I am so grateful for fri...

... there is such a thing as too polluted.  We have days here where the pollution may not be China-bad (although we'd never know, the...

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

We are the least romantic people in the world. Our Valentine's Day began with cold cereal and my gift to the family - not making them c...