A monthly look behind the stories in Embassy Kid: An American Foreign Service Family Memoir, and the view from my writing desk as I share the book. What I'm reading. Today, in honor of Foreign Service Day, there is a special essay. And, as always, a couple of closing pictures of Kumba, my rescue Lab…
On Friday, November 22, 1963, when I was nine years old, my family was in the final days of a week in Washington DC between my father’s US Information Agency posts in Rome and Bogotá. My father completed his morning briefings on the Kennedy administration’s Alliance for Progress, the president’s key economic development initiative for…
Two months ago today, my husband, Ray, and I flew home to Florida from Amsterdam, where I'd become critical ill during a vacation.