Like nomads, but with more stuff

... no, no, don't worry, Terry and I are fine. With 5 weeks to go in my tour things are winding down. Many of my kids' friends - ...

I had a business trip this week that required me to overnight in a hotel.  This was sitting on a shelf above the mini-bar, right nex...

Open apology to my mother's mah jjong and canasta groups - Sorry, my mother is going to be insufferable for the next week. I'm sure...

We have friends whose kids attend a school with a more Kazakhstani schedule. That means school's out!  They head home for the summer la...

My kids bicker and fight. Yes, most siblings do, but mine always seem to take it up a notch. We've tried numerous solutions, involving ...

One of the downsides of foreign service life is how often we miss our extended families' big moments. This time managed to be an except...

On our fourth day we made the trek to Bishkek.  Our first stop was the honey stand we had passed on our way to the lake, where we bought ...

If you aren't going to experience nature, and between the rain and the chill we weren't, there isn't really much in Karakol. ...

The next day we headed out to go halfway around the lake. Early in the drive we pulled over in a canyon and had a great time exploring a...

  To be very frank, the pollution in Astana has driven us, on all previous holidays, to find refuge in the clean air of western Europe o...