Apr 2, 2018 “Going local”: risk or benefit? I don’t know if you’ve heard of the concept of “going local”. It’s like, when a diplomat (or other expat) decides to quit the job and...
Mar 27, 20185 Disastrous flight mistakes I madeI was just in Rome for a long weekend. We are posted in Armenia, which means I had to take several flights to get there. To be on the...
Mar 18, 2018Diplomats make the “medium bucks”A diplomat I know once called the salary diplomats make “the medium bucks”. In contrast, lots of people think that diplomats make...
Feb 27, 2018The wildest jobs in the Foreign ServiceHere’s a cool thing you might not know about being a US diplomat: there are tons of different types of jobs out there and not all of them...
Feb 4, 2018What it’s like to have staff (I saw that eye roll!)If you would ask me what it’s like to have a bunch of people working for me, I would say that it’s pretty much an emotional and...