Category Archives: Foreign Service

Our family of SixAbroad will be heading to Amman, Jordan next summer.  I’m sure this next post will provide plenty of fodder for this family of world observers and bloggers.  So stay tuned! Bad news:  I won’t have to wear an abaya in Jordan so I will unfortunately have to continue shaving my legs. GoodContinue reading “Our Next Adventure”

1.  Fourteen year-old boys are an interesting breed.  They are on the brink of manhood, but are still very much little boys.  They like to think that they are very mature, but they continue to whack each other with whatever they can get their hands on–in much the same way they have been doing sinceContinue reading “A Few Observations”

What is right with America can be summed up in two words: Garbage Disposal.  The garbage disposal is the second greatest invention since the wheel. (The first, of course, is the iPad.  Thank you Steve Jobs!) And in my humble opinion, the garbage disposal has to be the most underrated invention of all time. I cannotContinue reading “What’s Right With America”

My father-in-law passed away yesterday.  He was 80 years old.  We think that he knew it was coming, because he and my mother-in-law had been talking about it in the preceding days.  He told her that when the time came, he wanted it to be just the two of them alone.  He didn’t want anyoneContinue reading “An Experience I Will Cherish Forever”

This is a very good question.  And I wish I had an answer.  But alas, I don’t.  However, I do know of some possibilities.  We received our bid list this week.  I wish I could publish it here, but apparently that’s a no-no.  But I do have to say that one of the 30+ possibilitiesContinue reading “Where Are We Going Next?”

I’ve been stressed out today.  I follow a blog called the NieNie Dialogues.  Nie is such a good mom and she has perfect children.  Of course, she was horribly burned in a plane crash, but other than that, her life is perfect.  I want Nie’s life–without the burns. So like I said, I’m stressed out.Continue reading “A Short Respite From Stress”

Up until this afternoon, I thought my soon-to-be 14 year-old son Ben would do pretty much anything for money. Once, during a combined youth/adult sunday school class at church, I whispered in Ben’s ear that I would pay him $1000NT (about $30 U.S.) if he would raise his hand and make an intelligent comment.  ItContinue reading “What a Teenage Boy Will and Will Not Do for Money”