A little over a week ago concluded the annual exercise all Foreign Service employees get to partake in, the Employee Evaluation Reports (aka EERs). I wrote about it last year here, but the just of it is you get to write a narrative of all your great accomplishments over the preceding year known as a
In astrophysics, the event horizon is the point around a black hole that not even light itself can escape. It’s essentially the point where there is no turning back. That’s how I feel the last few weeks at post is. In less than a month, the family and I will be leaving Mauritania, and as
One aspect of my time in Mauritania that was so foreign to me when I first arrived but now a happy fixture of my day is the call to prayer. In Islam, the call to prayer (Adhan) is recited from mosques 5 times a day. The first prayer is early morning before sunrise and called
Hachi Machi! So much to do with such little time. The final month before our PCS sort of feels like being in a small room with the walls closing in. With Angeli back home, successfully navigating her re-entry into the medical field, I have been coordinating pack outs, play dates, and work functions, doing my
