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  • Welcome! Like many others, I’ve decided to keep a blog about my experiences here in Iraq, and if you’ve found this place, I hope it will be worth your time. I’ve been out here since March 2008 and am getting ready to wrap my tour in the next few weeks. It has be
  • 240to120.com an american’s foreign service blog about life in vladivostok, russia. serving as an information management specialist. i thought they said foreign “circus” and said “where do i sign?”
  • A Daring Adventure “Life is either A Daring Adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
  • A Postcard From… Adventures, near and far.
  • A World Not Our Own: A Public Diplomacy Blog “This world is not my own, I am just passing through.”
  • A year in Egypt I’m taking a year off from my normal job as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State to work as a civilian observer with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula. Here’s my story…
  • Absentee Voter My global life, from Ohio to Massachusetts to North Carolina to Austria to New Hampshire to South Korea to Japan to Maryland to Denmark to… the future!
  • Across the Equator South American Adventures
  • Adventures Around the World A foreign service officer’s perspective on life abroad.
  • Adventures in Good Countries Starting out in the Foreign Service
  • Adventures in Thailand Life in the Foreign Service
  • Adventures in… …various nouns and gerunds
  • An Artist’s Musings
  • Anne’s Blog Anne’s Blog – LiveJournal.com
  • Arbitrary Lines Formerly From Russia with Love . . . our adventures living around the world
  • at post A photo blog from Foreign Service people around the world.
  • Beau Geste, Mon Ami The chronicle of my journey to and through the Foreign Service.
  • Beyond the cornfields Follow as we embark upon our new life in the Foreign Service.
  • Bob’s Foreign Service
  • cats with passports one couple, two cats, thousands of miles, and the journey through infertility
  • Changes and Colours All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
  • Code Yellow Mom Happiness isn’t happiness without a violin-playing goat.
  • criplomats The Crippens, on their way to becoming diplomats
  • Cromaroama
  • Cyberbones
  • Dan & Duffy’s Blog
  • Dead Men Working
  • Diplochick FSO mum + reluctant trailing hubby = CHAOS
  • DiploJournal Adventures transitioning to the world of diplomacy and the United States Foreign Service
  • DiploLife A family of four (a foreign service officer, a spouse, a three year old and a chocolate lab) adjusting to life in the U.S. Foreign Service. We have been at our first post, in Kolkata, India, since the summer of 2008.
  • Diplomat and Cat Ramblings of a junior FSO traveling the world with her tuxedo cat
  • DiplomatDoc
  • Diplomatic Baggage Misadventures of a Diplomat’s Young Wife
  • Diplomatic Immunity This is a blog about my entry into the United States Foreign Policy Community and a personal journal illustrating what we are doing right and wrong in the world. It will be politically incorrect, but it will be honest.
  • Diplomatic Incidents I’m a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, currently serving in Washington, D.C. as I train for basic diplomatic service. The son of a Marine aviator, I’ve lived in a dozen states, and have been to Japan and Ireland. I’ll be blogging about my training, selecti
  • diplomaticpickle
  • DiploTrotting
  • DipNomad I am a career Foreign Service Officer stationed overseas for the past 12 years. I believe strongly that the U.S.A. and American values are the guiding light for many around the world. Americans just need to continue having failth in themselves and their C
  • Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog
  • DipNotes Stories and thoughts from members of the U.S. Foreign Service
  • EF’M: The Life of an FSO Spouse Because I’m not just a government acronym!
  • EgSinBaghdad occasional comments about living and working in Beautiful Baghdad, the Mesopotamian Metropolis between the Rivers
  • Email From The Embassy After three years in Beijing, we’re headed to Amman, Jordan. For family and friends who want to follow our adventures, this is it…
  • Fabling A foreign service family and their adventures across the world and back.
  • Five Fleming Rovers and a Dog The adventures of John, Christine, Gabby, Kit, Jack and Kelbi
  • Foreign Circus Life Detailing the life and times of a Foreign Service officer married to a U.S. Marine, addicted to home improvement shows, and dreaming of one day transforming into an interior designer or maybe an archaeologist…
  • Foreign Service Husband Foreign Service Husband – LiveJournal.com
  • Foreign Service Specialist – My OMS Journey Live the Life you Love – Love the Life you Live
  • Foreign Service Specialist – My OMS Journey Live the Life you Love – Love the Life you Live
  • Four2go
  • FP Passport
  • Freeloading Traveler
  • FS Tips and Tricks Getting the most out of your Foreign Service Career
  • Gadling Gadling
  • Girl in the Rain A Displaced Seattleite Wandering the Globe
  • GlobeHoppers …two adults, four kids, and all their stuff wandering the world.
  • greatdiversions.com Interesting sights along the road of life.
  • Half-Breed Outlaw
  • Hawkes Family Abroad
  • Herding Cats A time-honored tradition.
  • Hick/Hitchhiker/…Diplomat (!?) Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–I left the paths and climbed a mountain
  • Holly in the Foreign Service
  • HUBISS
  • Irreverence Abroad Wherever I Go…There I Am
  • Jacksonian Realist From the foothills of Appalachia to world traveler, I am a proud American citizen who still believes in American exceptionalism,the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution and the founding principles of the Great Republic. My interests include travel, politics
  • Kitty Non Grata Don’t shoot me, I’m a diplomat. With a cat.
  • Learning to Walk in Stilettos Rantings and ravings from my windy expatriate world, and some knitting blurbs too.
  • Lebalkam Lebalkam – LiveJournal.com
  • Letters from Quincy Park They will go two by two’til the world’s end: Step by step, and side by side…. Alfred de Musset
  • Life After Jerusalem The musings of a Two-Spirit American Indian, Public Diplomacy-coned Foreign Service Officer
  • Life is What Happens While We’re Making Plans A He Said, She Said blog about life, adventure, and uncertainty
  • lime of sight life is full of inspiration
  • Lindsey Mae’s blog
  • Locke’d Up Abroad
  • Matt and his Naked Thoughts Just another WordPress.com weblog
  • Mayomemories A Foreign Service Journal With Plenty of Unnecessary Condiments
  • McLErvin’ Around the World
  • Midlife Diplomatic Crisis Blogging about becoming an FSO as a third career. Needless to say (or maybe not needless to say) the opinions expressed here by me are mine, and not necessarily those of the Department of State, or anyone else.
  • Minnesota Gal’s Blog You can take the girl out of Minnesota, but you can’t take the Minnesota out of the girl!
  • Mobile Home The experiences of a new foreign service family as we travel from Florida to the world.
  • Multiliterate Come visit a little of my life. For friends, family, and interested others.
  • Muttering Behind the Hardline Rants of a Foreign Service Officer on the things that matter to you — and matter to you not at all
  • My Name is Jon, and I’m Gay What we need now is outreach from LGBT folks to our friends, families, schools, workplaces, places of worship, community organizations – whatever you think. We can only go so far in the legal and political fight in Washington, but we can make this happen
  • Nick and Liz Go Global Tales of a life in the US Foreign Service. First stop: Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • Not the Forest Service Not the French Foreign Legion… We’re joining the service. The Foreign Service. Not quite Bond. Not quite “The Gay Diplomat.” Probably more like “The Last Remake of Beau Geste.” Come along for the ride. (Movie References deliberate and ubiquitous.)
  • OUR “Orient Express” Washington D.C. to Istanbul- this train is leaving the station!
  • Our Macedonian Adventure We arrived in Skopje on June 26th,2008, tired and stressed, but very excited about the new adventures ahead of us in our new home. Join us as we share our life here in Macedonia!
  • Our Serbian Story The Richardson Family’s Adventures in Serbia (and Beyond!)
  • Oyster The world is one’s oyster…
  • Patchwork Planet … the bits and pieces that make life interesting …
  • place2place
  • Political Fermentations
  • PsyDip: Psychological Diplomacy Where psychology and diplomacy meet
  • Rambles and Ruminations A semi-regular catalog of our comings and goings.
  • random neural firings bears. beets. battlestar galactica.
  • Red Licorice and Jujubes Memories from my youth…my two favorite candies. And now that I’m not so young, they’re still my favorites. Amazing how some things take you back in time…tastes, smells, sounds. It’s a good thing.
  • Rock Star in Dhaka and Other Places Whew, that title just got a lot more cumbersome…
  • SassAndSweet In Search of a Better Exchange Rate… Observations about life as a Diplomat.
  • SchutzHappens
  • Scott & Jill’s Big Adventure
  • Scrivners
  • Something edited this way comes It’s not Shakespeare, but it is random … now featuring life in the Foreign Service. The thoughts expressed here are mine. Not my husband’s, not the U.S. Department of State’s, not anyone else’s. Mine, all mine.
  • Stamps In Our Passports
  • Steve and Lisa
  • Taitai knits
  • Teamroy Adventures
  • Technobedouin Laptop? Check. Passport? Check.
  • That Lady, There: Aspiring to Join the Foreign Service at Age 50 A single mom with one child in college and one at home decides to fulfill the dream of a lifetime — to join the Foreign Service. So far, it’s been an adventure. Even if she fails, she’s had a rare experience that she’ll savor for the rest of her life.
  • The Adventures of Hutch and Dutch Advancing healthcare, nurturing diplomacy, and finding the good, the true, and the beautiful in all the world’s wonders :o)
  • The Ausmerican - Issues facing; Expat professionals, Trailing Spouses, Portable Businesses, Near Retirement Professionals …. and other stuff of professional and personal interest.
  • The Chronicles of Chris Travel recollections.
  • The Cookie Pusher Life in the foreign service
  • The Davis Family Adventures
  • The Dinoia Family Three kids, two parents, and one crazy cat traveling the world. We are a Foreign Service family recently transferred from the East Bay of San Francisco to Northern Virginia just in time for the dad to depart for a year-long unaccompanied tour somewhere
  • The Diplodocus Sticking My Neck Out for America
  • The Embassy Crowd
  • The FS Rookie I’m a junior officer in the United States’ Foreign Service.
  • The girl behind her diplomat.. The observations and updates of a Foreign Service family.I’ll post our travels here as we wander on our diplomatic adventure.
  • The Guatemala Holla, Now Featuring Afghanistan
  • The Hegemonist Looking at Foreign Policy and International Relations
  • The Hoosier Cable Proudly representing the United States of America before the world community with a touch of “Hoosier Hospitality and Class”.
  • The Life Diplomatic
  • The Más Allá Spanish for “Even Further” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Join us in our adventures to “The Más Allá”
  • The Ohio Diplomat What happens when a girl from Ohio achieves her dream of joining the Foreign Service? Meet the Cossitt-Pernal family and learn the realities of life as a foreign service family.
  • The Perlman Update Follow the chaos as we share our tales of life abroad
  • The Ronin Road
  • The Skeptical Bureaucrat Giving my fellow Americans the view from my cubicle
  • The Vegan Diplomat
  • The Warpiper
  • The Way I See Things A foreign service officer’s often critical, therefore anonymous, thoughts on the foreign service, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. politics, and anything else that strikes her as interesting.
  • The World That We Live In
  • The Year of Living Unpredictably June 15th, 2008 – June 15th, 2009…
  • Trailing Male This blog concerns the trials, tribulations, and meanderings of a Foreign Service spouse, currently residing in Albania on our second tour.
  • Trailing Spouses Blog by Pascale Cotton (A + B) for the wives or partners of expatriates or diplomats – and for the growing number of “trailing husbands” – who want to develop their own career, start new ventures, or even create their own “portable business” based on thei
  • Travel Tales
  • Tumbleweeds A collection of thoughts, experiences, insights, and epiphanies gathered along the way, as I make my slow ascent toward the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service.
  • TuTuDiplomat adventures as a junior officer in the foreign service
  • Two Crabs An American wanderlust expat couple living in London and exploring the world … one pub at a time!
  • Viajes y pensamientos
  • Vice Consul Diplomatically transformed.
  • Victory is mine! The essence of life is to be found in the frustrations of established order.
  • Where in the World Am I? Notes from the sunny shores of Lake Tanganyika, Bujumbura, Burundi.
  • Where in the world is Jamie???
  • Where in the World is Luca Galeno? Taking the road less traveled: our family’s life in the Foreign Service…
  • Where to Next? (Now with Baby Baggage!) And then they were off to Moscow, with a little one in tow. Before, Jeremy had gone to Afghanistan, but Masha stayed in Washington. And then Jeremy came home. And then Natalya was born. And all three (plus the one on the way) of them are going somewhe
  • WIFE – MOMMY – WOMAN IN THAT ORDER
  • wontbeatbarcabutilltry
  • WoodLand Travels Follow along as Billy, Regina, Ethan and Gabriel begin their foreign service adventures with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The views and opinions expressed on this site are those of Regina and Billy and do not constitute those of
  • Worldwide Available My Opinions Are Mine and Mine Alone
  • Worldwide Dave A blog about life overseas.
  • www.MountainRunner.us Discourse on America’s Discourse, published by Matt Armstrong
  • yrstruly. world wonderer. world wanderer.
  • ¡Hola! La Paz Life Abroad And Other Observations By A Worldchump

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