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Posted on November 25, 2022November 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid

Family Friday: How Our Rescue Lab Earned a Place at the Thanksgiving Table

We’re actually three. Me, to our waitress on Thanksgiving Oh, let me get you another set of silverware. Our waitress I pointed down to where our six-year-old rescue black Lab lay quietly at my husband’s feet on the outdoor deck, his Thanksgiving napkin bandana bunched into a make-shift pillow. Yes, we took our dog out…

Posted on October 25, 2022November 2, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 2 Comments

Memoir Monday: When the Foreign Becomes Familiar, Barriers Drop

A scene from Netflix series Mo.

The Arab world felt foreign to me until a Muslim family adopted me, Ons Jabeur played in the US Open, and Mo Amer revealed how I’ve been speaking Arabic my whole life.

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 30, 2022September 17, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 2 Comments

Wellness Wednesday: The Restorative Power of Love

Kumba pawshake

The love of my family surrounded my ICU bed in 2019 and carried me toward healthy ground. Our love has guided a scared, aggressive rescue Lab into being his true self, the most chill dog in our neighborhood.

Posted on March 26, 2022October 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid · 2 Comments

Wellness Wednesday: Know Your Breed, Find Their Bliss

Kumba and the ball take a break

It’s amazing to see a dog who is genetically predisposed to do something light up when you give him the chance to do it. It’s like he’s saying, ‘Wow! How did you know?’

Posted on December 10, 2021October 27, 2022 by RealEmbassyKid

Wellness Wednesday: The Year-Round Christmas Colors of South Florida

South Florida berry bush

Christmas decor comes naturally in South Florida, where red and green abound in my year-round garden.

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 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid

A Day With A Palm Tree: How to Spread Year-Round Joy with Christmas Lights

Lights 4 Hope 2021

Holiday lights are spreading happiness and joy year round in Palm Beach County.

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.

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