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Posted on July 24, 2022October 4, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 4 Comments

Memoir Monday: Home Leave Territory is Still Sacred Ground

Silo, farmhouse, corn: Home Leave Territory!

Home leave territory is a place where it is always summer, where our extended family lived in the same homes year after year, and where we were the celebrated visitors.

Posted on June 9, 2022September 17, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 10 Comments

Memoir Monday: Life is a Carnival!

Caracas trio 1955

In 1955, I learned how to walk to a Latin playlist The earliest tunes I remember hearing were the Venezuelan rhythms of música criolla which the radio stations in Caracas played at night. Dad had an affinity for music—part genetic, his farmer father was a self-taught fiddler, and part born of listening to songs streaming…

Posted on March 5, 2022October 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 4 Comments

Memoir Monday: ”I am from Kyiv.”

American and Ukrainian flags hands clasped

We stand with the brave people of Ukraine, as President Kennedy with the people of Berlin in 1963.

Posted on November 27, 2021October 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid

Memoir Monday: How American Diplomats Celebrate Thanksgiving

Our outdoor Thanksgiving table in South Florida

For the first time, my husband and I did not have turkey for our Thanksgiving meal, choosing instead butter-soft filet mignon for our dinner-for-two this year. However, tradition is much on my mind. As US embassies, foreign service families, and ex-pats of all kinds celebrate America’s national holiday abroad, the events of the day are…

Posted on November 19, 2021October 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid

Memoir Monday: Birthday Breakfast and Anchovy Pizza

We all have celebration traditions. Mine are Birthday Breakfast and anchovy pizza. Here’s why.

Posted on October 8, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 3: How My Mother Got Our Family Through A Revolution (1958, Caracas)

Josefina and Janie, Caracas 1955

My mother never imagined that she’d be a part—time diplomat, mother of two bilingual kids, boss to a live-in maid, figuring out how to get through a revolution.

Posted on October 1, 2021October 8, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid · 1 Comment

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 2: The Mob Comes Roving (Caracas, 1958)

My parents, sister, and me at the Rome Embassy

“They’re looking for PJ’s head honchos,” my father said. “Russ just had a mob in front of their house thinking his diplomatic plates were Venezuelan issue for the regime.”

Posted on September 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 1: The Dictator Flies Over Our House (Caracas, 1958)

Ernest Hamlin Baker, TIME magazine cover 2/28/55

The Venezuelan dictator flew over our house on his way into exile.

Posted on July 16, 2021July 17, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid · 3 Comments

Family Friday: What Makes Me a Third Culture Kid?

Though I looked American, I was not; I was a sort of clandestine foreigner.

Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid · 2 Comments

Travel Tuesday: When We Experienced Holland’s “Juneteenth”

Emancipation Day, Oosterpark, Amsterdam

Recovering in Amsterdam When I was hospitalized for three months in Holland in 2019, the highlight of each day was spending the afternoon hours with my husband. It was the only thing that kept him going, he told me much later. Although our daughter had flown to be by his side for the six weeks…

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