It is always difficult for me to write about my Father, he was a force to recon with, a true diplomat to the core. A man, who’s cancer took from this earth way too early. He was 51 when he took his last breath. I was left to ring in my 20th birthday with a …
He turned and said “Everything is different, Diplomacy will never be the same again.” My Father and I were sitting on the couch, watching the one symbol that summed up my Father’s career. The Berlin Wall. I watched grainy footage of various long lost family members embracing, crying, laughing, reuniting after an excruciating separation by …
I heard the honk outside, before the phone rang. I ran to the phone, the guard at the gate told me I had friends at the gate, wanting to come in. I wandered outside to meet 3 male friends, all standing by a jeep in my driveway, all dressed in beach clothes and sandals, …
Does anyone even remember getting snail mail? Except for Christmas time, I don’t even remember the last time I got a proper card, or letter in my mailbox. I mean, does one even send out Birthday cards anymore, or is it all just virtual? I remember snail mail all too well. Growing up, that diplomatic pouch …
I am not sure why I decided to say yes, it had been a struggle to get my life back on track after my Father’s death, but there I was, in the building I named “the chocolate cake” when I was a kid. The ugliest building in architectural history, a ghastly chocolate-brown building, that looked …
My first day at the UN, I knew my Father was with me. When I stepped in that massive room for the first time, I wanted to throw up. All that time that my Father had spent with me, flooded back. I stood in shock and awe. I had finally walked into that inner sanctum, …
It was always the same, somewhere, in the middle of a massive meeting, you would hear “well, if this doesn’t work, at least I only have 5 years left until retirement.” – wait, what? As a new officer at Foreign Affairs, it would shock me. I mean, why keep track of when you are planning …
I love books, I grew up reading at a pretty veracious speed, and used books to learn, escape, and learn another language. Here are a few books you should rediscover/reread, or pickup next time you are looking for a good read. This may have been on your highschool reading list, and you may have skipped …
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It was hot and sticky, the condensation was building on my bedroom windows quickly that water began to pool at the bottom of the windows. I could see the city outside of my windows, and the barbed wire fence around our property, were pitch black. The city was experiencing another black out. The brownouts …
