Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist

We're taking full advantage of opportunities to take vacations. I had leave from my previous job and saved more during 5 months of manda...

We went to the IceHotel! They style the name as ICEHOTEL but I refuse to capitalize the whole thing since it gives it way too much emphasis...

One big thing I look back on at the end of the year is personal finances. This year I'm sharing something about that since it was a big ...

It's hard to believe we've been in Stockholm 6 months already! That's 1/4 of the way through my first Foreign Service assignment...

Yes, I started with the Foreign Service back in February of this year. Yes, I brought along copies of my personnel record and filled out ton...

Julmagi på Skansen translates to Christmas magic at Skansen. I didn't see any magic but it was a sunny cold day for strolling around the...

Daylight is getting shorter with an 8:13AM sunrise and 2:58PM sunset right now. The shortest day of the year will be here on Dec 22nd when i...