Next Stop.....the World!

Prior to joining the Dept. of State this past July, I was working for a few months for the Dept. of Navy in Charleston SC. It was only 5-6 m...

Part of the joy of being in the Foreign Service is you get to get vaccinated for oh...everything before you go to post (and sometimes in bet...

So we when driving up to DC back in mid-July, we had no idea how long we would be here. It made it tricky for deciding what clothes to bring...

I'm a science dork...no big surprise to anyone who knows me. I take pride in being a fountain of useless knowledge of science factoids (...

Having grown up in St. Louis, Misery Missouri (nothing personal, just no ocean...lol). I typically go back and visit once a year or so. I d...

Tbilisi, Georgia (country not the state). Image from:  http://highlander.ge/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/georgian-flag.jpg It is such a ...

So I sat in an auditorium waiting for the program to start.....finally, the standing room only auditorium quieted when the mike was turned...