Category Archives: Foreign Service

My daughter Cecily has a strange problem.  Wild animals like to bite her. Right after this picture was taken in Bali, the monkey bit her: In Borneo, this orangutan bit her: We even got it on video.  Check it out here. The best part of the orangutan bite was when our guide pulled out aContinue reading “She Got Bit!”

In less than an hour, I’m heading to the airport in Johannesburg to fly to Salt Lake City.  Jason booked my ticket about 8 hours ago.  I’m flying to the US to be with my 19 year-old daughter who is having surgery on Wednesday.  Don’t worry, it’s not too serious.  She’s having oral surgery onContinue reading “Going to Be with my Baby Girl”

I like words.  One of my favorite types of words is adjectives.  As a result, I have assigned an adjective to each foreign country in which I’ve lived. To Italy, I have assigned the adjective beautiful.  Italy is a country of beauty, and Italians are a people who understand beauty.  They use beauty in everyContinue reading “Four Adjectives and a Noun”

Spring has sprung in South Africa!  Pretoria’s nickname is Jacaranda City.  The whole city has turned purple and it’s spectacular!

I begin this post by saying that there are two things in this world that I despise:  snakes and rats.  Really, that’s it–that’s all that I despise.  Just one step above despise, in the loathing category, I would have to put cigarettes, cigarette smoke, cigarette butts, cigarette packaging, ashtrays, cigarette induced emphysema and lung cancer–prettyContinue reading “Rats!!!”