Here is an interesting story NPR did about life in the Foreign Service.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5343016
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A Few Blogs I Watch
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Five Things5 years ago
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What's on your dinner plate?7 years ago
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Bi' Çay İçermisiniz?7 years ago
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What’s Next?7 years ago
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Where did the Dubinskys Go?8 years ago
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Safari in Pendjari10 years ago
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Foreign Service Blogs
- 100 Weeks in Brazil (FSO and EFM)
- 110to220.com
- A Broad Abroad (female FSO)
- A Daring Adventure (DS EFM w/kids)
- A Diplomat's Wife (EFM w/kids)
- A Fisher Out of Water (EFM w/kids)
- A For Adventure (FSO)
- A Postcard From... (female FSO)
- A Sojourning Life (female FSO)
- A World Not Our Own (PD fellow)
- A year in Egypt (FSO)
- AAFSW
- Absentee Voter (FSO)
- Across the Equator (FSO/EFM)
- Adam and Jill Run 2 New Places (FSO and EFM)
- Adventures Around the World (FSO)
- Adventures By Aaron: Life of a "trailing" spouse
- Adventures in Good Countries (FSO)
- Adventures in Oman (EFM w/kids)
- Adventures in Thailand (FSO)
- Adventures in...Limbo (FSO)
- Adventures of a Clay Pot (female FSO)
- Adventures of a Diplomatic Family (EFM w/kids)
- Adventures of a freckled faced girl
- Adventures of the Swaneys five (EFM w/kids)
- Adventures with Otto (FS kid)
- Aloha FSO (FSO)
- Ambassador's Blog (Ambassador to Iceland)
- American Polis.com (FSO)
- Amy Gottleib (USAID)
- An Artist's Musings (EFM)
- Andersons in Benin (FSO/EFM)
- Anne's Blog (female FSO)
- Arbitrary Lines (EFM)
- At Post (FSO photo blog)
- At Your Service in Switzerland - Aaron Martz (FSO)
- At Your Service in Switzerland - Anna Martz (EFM)
- Ausmerican (EFM)
- Authorized Departure (FSO)
- Back to the Desert (EFM)
- Beau Gest, Mon Ami (FSO)
- Ben and Sarah Williams (EFM)
- Beyond Kimchee (EFM)
- Beyond the Cornfields (EFM w/child)
- Bills Family Report (FSO and EFM)
- Black Passport (FSO)
- Blah Blah Blawg (FSO)
- Bob's Foreign Service (FSO)
- Brand New Day
- By the Where? The Worldwide Adventures of Justin, Sarah and Elliott
- C'est si bon (FSO)
- Career Diplomat (female FSO)
- Carla Runs The World (EFM)
- Cats With Passports (EFM)
- Changes and Colours (EFM)
- Check My Carry Ons (EFM w/kids)
- Chronic Wander Lust (FSO)
- Chronicles of an FS Life (EFM)
- Chronicles of Chris (FSO)
- Code Yellow Mom (EFM w/kids)
- Consul At Arms (FSO)
- Consul At Arms II (FSO)
- crafty foreign service (EFM)
- criplomats (FSO tandem)
- Cromaroama (FSO/EFM)
- Cupcake Diplomacy (female FSO)
- Cyberbones (FSS/EFM)
- Cybersnakes (Diplokid)
- Dan and Duffy (FSO tandem)
- Dead Men Working (FSO)
- Dear Diary: Travels in the Foreign Service (female FSO with kids)
- Deeblog (FSO)
- Delicious Diplomacy (FSO and EFM)
- Destination: Diplomacy (female FSO)
- Devonnaire (EFM)
- Dili Dallying (EFM w/kids)
- Diplochick (female FSO)
- Diplodocus (FSO tandem)
- Diplogeek (female FSO)
- DiploJournal (FSO)
- DiploLife (EFM)
- Diplomat and Cat (FSO)
- Diplomat Doc (FSS)
- Diplomat Fritz (FSO/EFM)
- Diplomatic Incidents (FSO)
- Diplomatic Pickle (EFM)
- Diplomatic Status (female FSO)
- DiplomaticDad (FSO)
- DiploNerds (FSO and EFM)
- Diplopundit (EFM extraordinaire!)
- Diplotette (FSO)
- DiploTraveler (female FSO)
- DiploTrotting (FSO)
- DipNomad (FSO)
- Djakarta Djournal (FSO)
- dp's blog (male EFM)
- EF'M: The Life of an FSO Spouse (male EFM)
- EgSinBaghdad (FSO)
- Elise and Paul + 2 (EFM w/kids)
- Email from the Embassy (EFM w/kids)
- en route to nowhere (EFM)
- EricaJGreen's blog (EFM w/kids)
- Fabling (FSO/EFM w/kids)
- Face the Sun (FSO)
- Facts Are Strictly Optional (FSO)
- Family Documentary (EFM)
- Family of Traveling Gnomes (EFM w/kids)
- Fawda Munathema
- Fergusons on the Loose (EFM)
- Five Fleming Rovers and a Dog (EFM w/kids)
- Foggy Bottom Rambles (FLO Office)
- For Lack of Tacos (EFM)
- Foreign Circus Life (FSO)
- Foreign Obsession (FSS)
- Foreign Service Husband (male EFM)
- Foreign Service Kid (FS kid)
- Foreign Service Specialist (FSS...duh)
- Foreign Service Specialist - My OMS Journey (FSS)
- Foreign Service Tails (FS pets)
- Four 2 Go (FSO)
- Four Globetrotters (female FSO w/kids)
- FrankLovie.com (EFM)
- Freedom for Diplomacy (female FSO)
- Freeloading Traveler (FSO)
- Fro and a Fork (female FSO)
- from the back of beyond (EFM)
- FS Tips and Tricks (FSO)
- FS Travel Tales (FSO)
- FSO Globetrotter (FSO)
- FSO Wannabe (FSO)
- FSSFSO.com
- Gia Dinh Vinh Cuu (FSO)
- Girl in the Rain (FSO tandem)
- Global Geraghtys (EFM w/kids)
- Global Jacob (FSO)
- Globe Hopping (FSO and EFM w/kids)
- Globehoppers (FSO)
- Go Out For Adventure...Come Home For Love (female FSO)
- Going Global (female FSO/FSS)
- Grawburg 2009 (EFM)
- Great Diversions (FSO)
- Guatemala Holla (FSO)
- Gwen's Adventures in the Foreign Service (FSS)
- Half-breed Outlaw (FSS)
- Hawkes Family Abroad (by invitation)
- Hearthwood Dome (EFM w/kids)
- Hello Talalay (female FSO and EFM)
- Herding Cats (FSO)
- Here and There (FSO)
- Here, There, and Everywhere (EFM w/kids)
- Hick/Hitchhiker...Diplomat?! (FSO)
- himynameistheresa (female FSO w/child)
- Holly in the Foreign Service (female FSO)
- Hot Pot (EFM)
- I Moved To Africa (male EFM)
- I Run, You Run (female FSO)
- I've Come to Look for America (female FSO)
- If I'm lost, it's only for a little while (FSO)
- In Pursuit of Life (female USAID FSO)
- Inflight Movie (FSS)
- Inner Beauty (EFM)
- Inner Beauty (EFM)
- Inter City Pressure (FSO)
- International Librarian (FSS)
- Intrepid Underground (FSO)
- Irreverence Abroad (male EFM)
- Jacksonian Realist (FSO)
- Joan Findley Perls (EFM)
- Join The Foreign Service (FSO)
- just a gLIMpse (FSO and EFM)
- Just Another Foreign Service Officer's Blog (FSO)
- Just US (EFM)
- kdiplomacy (female FSO)
- Keeping Up With The Joneses (female FSO)
- Kersamänia (female FSO)
- Kharma Rocks (female FSO)
- Kharma Rocks (female FSO)
- Kitty Non Grata (FSO)
- Knettles Travels (EFM w/kids)
- Knocking About (FSO)
- Knocking About Egypt (FSO)
- Learning to Walk in Stilettos (EFM)
- LeBalkam (USAID)
- Lees On The Go (USAID)
- Letters from Quincy Park (female FSO)
- Life AWAY From the Red Brick House (EFM)
- Life in the Land of the Long White Cloud (FSO)
- Life is a Zoo in the Jungle (EFM w/kids)
- Life Is What Happens While We're Making Plans (FSO/EFM)
- Life on the Mekong (FSO/EFM w/kids)
- Life's Crazy Pace (EFM/FSO hopeful)
- Lime of Sight (female FSO)
- Lindsey Mae's Blog (EFM)
- Linger Longer (FSO)
- Lisons and Dansons (FSO)
- Little Ms Daisy (EFM)
- Livingroom Friends (FSO)
- looking for geckos (EFM)
- Loving Life as an FSO Wife (EFM)
- Luffmans.com (FSS tandem)
- Mabsuta Bideshi - Happy Foreigner? (female FSO)
- Map the Globe (EFM)
- Matt and Emily in Budapest (USAID)
- Matt and His Naked Thoughts (FSO)
- Mayomemories (FSO)
- McClellan's Magellan (FSO)
- McLErvin' Around the World (EFM)
- Meandering Memos (FSO)
- Midlife Diplomatic Crisis (FSO)
- Milestones (FSS)
- Minnesota Gal's Blog (moved - currently posting at novakistan.com)
- MinnesotaMel (female FSO)
- Mission: Chennai (FSO)
- Mobile Home (EFM)
- Mochi Goes to the Foreign Service (female FSS)
- mojo-momma (EFM)
- Moments and Musings (female FSO)
- Monestel Family Odyssey (FSS)
- Moppyseed Puffin (EFM w/kids)
- Moving (EFM)
- Multiliterate (FSO/EFM)
- Multitasking (female FSO w/kids)
- Muttering Behind the Hardline (FSO)
- my last name is not cordaro (EFM)
- My life journey as an FSO's Wife and Mom (tandem couple)
- My Name is Jon, and I'm Gay (FSO)
- My New Life (female FSO)
- neither here nor there (female FSO)
- New Beginnings and New Adventures (EFM)
- New L'attitudes (FSO)
- New to the Foreign Service (links)
- Next Year In Jerusalem (FSO)
- Nick and Liz Go Global (USAID FSO/EFM)
- Noble Glomads (EFM)
- Nomads By Nature (EFM w/kids)
- Not the Forest Service (FSO - defunct)
- Novakistan
- NP Worldview (FSS)
- Ogles and Observations (EFM w/kids)
- Oh The Places I Will Go (FSO)
- On To Adventure (EFM)
- One Ticket to Adventure (FSO)
- Our "Orient Express" (EFM)
- Our American Family (FSO)
- Our Life (EFM w/kids)
- Our Macedonian Adventure (EFM)
- Our man in Charleston (FSO)
- Our Serbian Story (EFM)
- Our Yuppie Life (EFM)
- Our Yuppie Life (EFM)
- Outbound to Wonderland (FSO)
- Overseas Insights (EFM)
- Pantsuits and Pearls (FSO)
- Patchwork Planet (EFM)
- Paul Benjamin: Writer, Editor, Supermodel (male EFM)
- Peripatetic (FSO)
- place2place (EFM)
- Political Fermentations (FSO)
- Port-Au-Yinz (FSO)
- Psychological Diplomacy (FSO)
- Pulling Stakes (EFM w/kids)
- Rambles and Ruminations (EFM)
- Random Neural Firings (FSO)
- Rant Rant Rant (EFM w/kids)
- Red Licorice and Jujubes (female FSO)
- Rees Family Bogota (EFM - invitation only)
- Reflections from Maadi (EFM w/kids)
- Ren's Microdiplomacy (PD fellow)
- Rhubard and Rhetoric (female FSO)
- Rhymes With Icenogle (male EFM)
- Rock Star in Dhaka (female FSO)
- Ryan and Lori's Exciting Adventures (male EFM)
- Ryan and Lori’s Exciting Adventures (old)
- Sadie Abroad (female FSO)
- SassAndSweet (female FSO)
- Saunder's Family (FSO and EFM)
- Scaling Back and Moving On (EFM)
- SchutzHappens (EFM)
- Scott and Jill's Big Adventure (EFM)
- Scott At State (FSO)
- Scrivners (FSO)
- SD Dispatches (FSO)
- Seasons Worth Savoring (formerly Kolb Webs - EFM)
- Seltzer Water and Other Things (FSS)
- Serenity now...Insanity Later (FSO, EFM and cats)
- Sewing in No Man's Land (EFM w/kids)
- Shenyanigans (FSO)
- Sherwood Family Nonsense (EFM w/kids)
- Short Term Memory (tandem couple)
- Simmon says (EFM)
- Six Abroad (EFM)
- Six Months of Settled (EFM - invitation only)
- Skeptical Bureaucrat (CS)
- Small Bits (EFM)
- Something Edited This Way Comes (EFM w/kids)
- Something Witty This Way Comes (female FSO)
- sophiakodotcom (EFM)
- Spectrummy Mummy (EFM w/special needs child)
- Stamps In Our Passports (EFM)
- Steve and Lisa (FSO)
- Striped Pants and Cowboy Boots
- SubjectVerbObject (female FSO)
- Suit Up! Life in the Foreign Service (USAID FSO)
- Super Mario Diplomacy (FSO)
- Swaggering Pirates (female AID FSO)
- Switzerland (female FSO)
- Tabbies in Tow (FSS)
- Taitai Knits (EFM)
- Tales From a Not So Lonely Planet (female FSO)
- Tales of Dragons, Rabbits and Roosters (EFM w/kids)
- Tasman's World (FSO)
- Teamroy Adventures (FSO)
- Technobedouin (FSO)
- Ted Cross Blog (FSO)
- Ten and Soprano (EFM w/kids)
- That Lady, There (female FSO)
- The Accidental Diplomat (EFM w/kids)
- The Adventures of Hutch and Dutch (FSO/EFM)
- The Afghan Plan (FSO)
- The B Files (female FSO)
- The Barefoot Nomads (EFM)
- The Briden Bunch (EFM)
- The Bryant Blogger (FSS and EFM w/kids)
- The Chronicles of Ruben and Rohan (FSO)
- The Consuls' Files (female FSO - invitation only)
- The Cookie Pusher (FSO)
- The Cookie Pusher (FSO)
- The Cultural Imperialist (female FSO)
- The Davis Family Adventures (EFM)
- The Dinoia Family (DS EFM w/kids)
- The DipNotes (FS tandem)
- The Dubinsky's Travels (female AID FSO/EFM)
- The Embassy Crowd (EFM)
- The FS Rookie (FSO)
- The girl behind her diplomat (EFM)
- The Grand Adventures of C and D Randazzo (EFM)
- The Haiti Years (male EFM)
- The Hegemonist (FSO)
- The Hoosier Cable (FSO)
- The Hughes Nughes (FSO/EFM)
- The Kathmandu Diaries (FSO)
- The Kern Family (EFM)
- The Khaki Diplomat (FSO)
- The Langleys (EFM)
- The Last 3 Feet (female FSO)
- The Life Diplomatic (FSO)
- The Maguire Wire (FSO and EFM w/kids)
- The Mas Alla (FSO/EFM)
- The McGee Family
- The McNabb Clan (USAID EFM w/kids)
- The Navigator (FSO)
- The Ohio Diplomat (FSO/EFM)
- The OpSec Blog (DS)
- The Oyster (EFM)
- The Partition (FSO)
- The Perlman Update (DS EFM w/kids)
- The Ralles Adventure (EFM)
- The Red Menace Abroad (female FSO)
- The Rhodes Family Update (EFM)
- The Road to the Foreign Service
- The Ronin Road (FSO)
- the slow move east (female FSO)
- The State of our Family (EFM)
- The Stone Rabbit (EFM w/kids)
- The Taylors' Travels (FSO/EFM)
- The Travelling Rubeshes (FSO/EFM)
- the uncommon life (FSO)
- The Vegan Diplomat (female FSO)
- The Wandering Drays (EFM w/kids)
- The Warpiper (FSO)
- The Way I See Things (female FSO)
- The World That We Live In (EFM)
- The Year of Living Unpredicatably (female FSO)
- there is fun to be done (EFM)
- There Lies the Port (female FSO)
- This Way to Somewhere (EFM w/kids)
- Throwing Off The Bowlines (FSO)
- Trailing Husband (male EFM)
- Trailing Male (male EFM)
- Trailing Spouses (EFM)
- Travel Orders (female FSO/male EFM)
- Travel Tales (FSO)
- Tuk and Tam (EFM)
- Tulip Girl (EFM)
- Tumbleweeds (FSO?)
- Tutu Diplomat (female FSO)
- Two Crabs (FSO)
- Two Red Marys and a Yellow Rose (female FSO)
- Tyker Girl (EFM w/kids)
- Uncertainty Can Be Happiness (FSO)
- V is for Vonhinken (FSO)
- Verdant Voyages (EFM w/kids)
- Viajes y pensamientos (FSO)
- Vice Consul (FSO)
- Victory is mine! (FSO)
- Wallingford Worldwide (male EFM)
- Wanderings of a Cheerful Stoic (female FSO)
- Watermarked Walls (female FSO)
- We Are Alive, Mom (FSO and EFM)
- we be rolling stones (same-sex FSO/EFM)
- Weebles Kabul But They Don't Fall Down (female FSO)
- well, that was different (EFM)
- Whales Ears and Other Wonderings (EFM w/kids)
- What Were We Thinking? (FSO and EFM)
- Where in the World Am I? (EFM)
- Where in the World is Doug? (FSO)
- Where in The World Is Jamie?? (female FSO)
- Where in the World is Luca Galeno? (EFM w/child)
- Where in the World is Zehra? (FSO)
- Where to Next? (Now with Baby Baggage) (EFM w/kids)
- White Waters & Black (FSO)
- Wife Mommy Woman (EFM w/kids)
- Wingtips on the Ground (FSO)
- wontbeatbarcabutilltry (female FSO)
- WoodLand Travels (USAID)
- World Adventurers (FSO)
- World Craft (FSS)
- World Wide Matel (FSO)
- Worldwide Availability (FSO)
- Worldwide Available (USAID)
- Worldwide Dave (FSO)
- Writing the World (FSO)
- Ya' Gotta be Kiddin' Me (female FSO)
- Yo Ali (FSS)
- You Can Call Me Al (FSO)
- You Can't Get There From Here (FSO)
- Your Bottoms Make Me Foggy (female FSO)
- yrstruly (female FSO)
- Zvirzdin's at Large (FSO)
More FS Blogs
- 365 Bad Days (EFM on UT)
- A Different Perspective (EFM)
- A Diplomat in the Deccan (female CG at Hyderabad Consulate)
- Abu Halen: Expatriate Dad and Mom Tell Tales of Good Times (FSO/EFM)
- Adventures in the Foreign Service (female FSO/RPCV)
- Adventures in...various nouns and gerunds (EFM)
- Adventures of a Diplomatic Family (EFM)
- All Aboard the Crazy Bus (FSO)
- All Points Forward (FSO)
- Ambfso (FSO)
- Arriaga's Adventures (FSS)
- Collecting Postcards (female FSO/RPCV)
- Compass and Companion (EFM w/kids)
- Diplomatic Impunity (EFM)
- Diplomats In The Mist (FSO)
- Diplomistan (female FSO)
- Driving to Guam (male EFM)
- Durian Days (EFM)
- Expeditionary Diplomats (FSO)
- Five Gs (EFM w/kids)
- Foreign Service IMS (FSS)
- Foreign Service Test (FSO)
- Foreign Service Thurows (FSO - private blog)
- French Fry Diplomacy (FSS)
- Frequent Flyer McGuires (FSO)
- Global Adventure Seekers (FSO)
- Hardship Homemaking (female FSO)
- Hello Talalay (female FSO and male EFM)
- Home is where the HHE is (FSO)
- How The Heck Did We Get Here? (EFM)
- How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us (female FSO w/kids)
- In Search of the End of the Sidewalk (EFM)
- Journey (female FSO)
- Kaitlinfso's blog (female FSO)
- La Vie Overseas (EFM)
- LaDipla (female FSO)
- Leastinterestingblog (FSO)
- Life Unexpected (EFM w/kinds)
- Like nomads, but with more stuff (tandem couple w/kids)
- M's Adventures (EFM)
- Many Hemispheres (EFM)
- Me, A Kid in the World (FS kid)
- Mom Is Multitasking (female FSO of tandem)
- Mom2nomads (EFM)
- Most Eligible Family (EFM)
- Of Elephants and Castles (female FSO/male EFM)
- Ongoing Adventures (FSS)
- Pryor Adventures (EFM w/kids)
- S as in Smylie (EFM w/kids)
- Schlink Attack! (female FSO)
- Scribble Babble (EFM)
- Semicolon Memoirs (same-sex EFM)
- Service Centered (FSO)
- Simple but Hard (EFM)
- Sir Winston The Intrepid (EFM)
- SpouseAbroad (EFM)
- Stateless Machine (FSS)
- Tabbies in Tow (female FSO)
- Texpatica (female FSO)
- The (No Longer) Freelancing Researcher (FSO)
- The Accidental Diplomat (female FSO)
- The Ashinator Abroad (female FSO)
- The Chao Family Adventure (EFM)
- The Dispatch (EFM)
- The Global Fork (EFM)
- The New Diplomat's Wife (EFM)
- Three Vicks Abroad (EFM)
- Towels Packed, Will Travel (FSO)
- Transgender in State (FSO)
- Travel Orders (tandem FSOs)
- Tuk y Tam (tandem)
- Way Off Base (DoD EFM)
- Where in the World is Jennifer Santiago? (female FSO)
- Wild Thoughts From Wild Places (EFM)
Future FSOs and FSSs
- Around the World and Back Again
- Brussels Spouts
- Consular World
- Flossing Around the Mulberry Bush
- Future Diplomat
- I'll Take Mine...To Go, Please!
- Mission: Foreign Service
- My Road to the Foreign Service
- Oh...the Possibilities!
- On my way to the foreign service...
- The Schip Family
- Wandering Browncoat
- Whit's Worldwide Wa/onderings
Other Interesting Links
- Adventures in Bureaucracy
- AMERICAblog
- AMERICAblog Gay
- American Diplomacy
- American Footprints
- Anti-Gay Lies and Liars
- Avuncular American
- Career Diplomacy
- Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service
- Citizen Diplomats
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Damn You, Auto Correct! (because its funny)
- Democracy Arsenal
- Dip to Dip
- DIPNOTE
- Diversity DiaBLOGues (intranet only)
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Foreign Policy Passport
- Foreign Policy Watch
- Foreign Service Blogregator
- Foreign Service Family Member e-Entrepreneur
- FSOT Forums
- GLIFAA
- Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
- IntLawGrrls
- Jerusalem Blog
- MountainRunner
- PetTravel blog
- PetTravel.com
- Public Diplomacy
- Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review Version 2.0
- Rethinking National Security
- State Department Blogs (intranet only)
- State Department Social Media Hub (intranet only)
- Tales from a Small Planet
- The New Civil Rights Movement
- TheBloggess (you might pee yourself)
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of State - Careers
- U.S. Diplomacy
- Undiplomatic
- USC Center for Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
- WhirledView
- Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Blog
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"I speak for those of us who could not have afforded to attend Duke, and would not have, even if we could have afforded it." - Charles Kuralt, UNC class of '55
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