Like nomads, but with more stuff

We've been in class about 3 weeks now and settling into our routines and slowly developing some ability.  Some highlights include: ...

This one is a good one. A really good one. Our car got packed up to head out of Astana about six weeks ago.  On Thursday afternoon it was d...

[Oops, somehow this never got published....] In the two weeks before packout we had excitement - some serious stuff, some less serious, s...

We are back at work, which means we are in language training. During the next several months our full time jobs plus off-time hobbies will ...

A fellow foreign service officer posted something on Facebook about Hungry Harvest , which alerted us to this organization's existence....

The kids and I left Kazakhstan, most likely (but in this crazy world never say never) forever, on August 1. it feels like a lifetime ago....

Dear Business Class, You've changed in the years since we hung out together regularly.  Mostly, for the better. Back in the day I cou...

It is 8:43pm. My mom and I were trying to arrange an online chat, and she was having so many problems with it I finally said don't worr...

In typical Soviet fashion, we received a message this afternoon from the kids' summer camp that tomorrow is the talent show/party and e...

11 boxes of air freight (65lb underweight) and 219 boxes of ship freight (almost 2000lb underweight) later, with a total of 6 suitcases and...