Category Archives: Foreign Service

We have been snowed-in for the past 5 days. It’s not that it has actually snowed all that much.  But Amman is a city of hills.  And when it snows, those hills turn to black ice, making it nearly impossible to get anywhere.  Things got bad enough over the weekend, that the government actually wentContinue reading “Snowed-in”

Cecily, our college daughter, came home to Jordan for Christmas.  She returns to the US this weekend and since she won’t return to Jordan before we leave here in June, she had a few things on her Bucket List to do before heading back to the Mother Land.  One of those things was to floatContinue reading “How to Do the Dead Sea On the Cheap”

1.  Cooked and cooked and cooked some more; followed by gorging and giving thanks with these fine people: And these slightly smaller, yet equally fine people: 2.  Spent a couple of days pretending to be the Queen of Sheba at the Marriott Dead Sea Spa and Resort: With this hottie footing the bill: 3.  SpentContinue reading “Three Things I Did This Week”

It’s official!  This morning, Jason received a handshake for our next post.  When we started the bidding process months ago, our possibilities looked like this: But slowly the possibilities shrunk down, and now we have a winner!  So, to review: We started here. Now we’re here. And next we’re headed here. Pretoria, South Africa.  TheContinue reading “Where in the World?”

A few years ago, I wrote a post entitled The ABC’s of Our Lives in Taiwan.  So to continue that tradition, I call this edition, The ABC’s of our lives in Jordan. A is for Amman and Arabs.  We have come to love them both. B is for Brown and Blue.  In Jordan, the skyContinue reading “The ABC’s of Our Lives in Jordan”

Though today is Friday, it is the Sabbath in Jordan.  We follow the Muslim Sabbath, so today is our sabbath as well.  Today, I drove through a neighborhood in Amman where there were a bunch of cars parked along the street.  I wondered what all the hubbub was about, then quickly realized that I wasContinue reading “Middle East Sabbath”

This week we celebrated Eid al-Adha in the Middle East.  Eid al-Adha is the Muslim holiday that celebrates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac, God’s sparing Isaac and providing a lamb for Abraham to sacrifice in place of his son.  Many Jordanian Muslims celebrate the holiday by purchasing a sheep or goat, killing theContinue reading “Eid Mubarak”