It was late May of 2012, and I was about to do something I swore I would never do: willingly attend a car race. Let me explain. I, obviously, grew up in America, and to me the only car races I was familiar with were NASCAR, which were essentially a bunch of bros making a […]
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Let me start this the same way I do every time I talk about our animals: I am perfectly aware that Sean and I are nuts to have five animals, and that we are certifiably insane to have five animals and then live the Foreign Service life. I get it. I don’t need anyone to […]
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It’s been about two weeks since we arrived in Tbilisi. Naturally, everyone is asking me what I think of this new city. And, naturally, being me, I have a complicated answer. Since this is only our second assignment overseas, I can’t help come compare everything to Dushanbe. I don’t know if this is necessarily the […]
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When I started telling people our next assignment overseas was Tbilisi, Georgia, I usually got one of two responses: Is that near Atlanta? Where’s Georgia? Is that like, Russia? No. And no. Even Google was confused when I tried to figure out the time difference to Maryland. When I searched “Georgia time to EDT” it […]
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