Most of the travel posts on WTWD are easily findable using the menu or the tag cloud. But other topics or commentaries are better at hiding! I’ve rounded those up on this page for easier navigation. Enjoy!
Feminism
- Contraception: a Foreign Service Perspective
- In Which I Stir the Pot
- Meet My Inner Raging Feminist
- You Learn Something New Every Day
- Defining “All”
- What’s In a Name?
- I Can’t Believe We Still Have to Protest This Sh**
- Reclaiming My Name (WordPress Discovery Editor’s Pick)
American Politics
- It’s About Time
- My Crazy Country And Me: A Brief Account Hopefully Not Ending With President Trump
- World, Meet Our Crazy Uncle
- When Your Country Needs a Slap Upside the Head
- Marching for Justice
- This is Not What Freedom Looks Like
- If White Men Were the Only Voters
- What Kind of Country…
- Just Thinking About White Male Privilege
- Crap, Crap, Crap
- You Can’t Fix Stupid
- Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
On Being Southern
- In My Hometown
- About That Flag
- Here Are a Few Things I Never Saw in Vienna
- Nashville is So Not Vienna
- The Grass is Always Greener
- The Ghosts of Appomattox
- A Story About a Mountain (Featured at The Bitter Southerner)
- Of Silk Purses and Sows’ Ears
- 100 Percent Immigrant
The Foreign Service
Thoughts on the Big Picture
- Whining Versus Criticizing Versus Enabling and So On
- Deja Vu All Over Again
- Dispensing Pearls of Wisdom
- One Word That I Don’t Mind, And One That I Do (Trailing Spouse)
- Five Things That May Surprise You About Being a Foreign Service Spouse
- Five Wishes for the Foreign Service
Eligible Family Member Employment (or Lack Thereof)
- In Which I Learn to Follow My Own Advice
- The Pros and Cons of Working in Bunny Slippers
- Free Stuff I Use in My Home Office
- Deja Vu All Over Again
- Who Are You Calling “Eligible”?
Third Culture Kids
- How to Make a TCK Without Even Trying
- You Just Never Can Tell
- The Hazards of a Privileged Life
- Can’t Live With Them…Or Something Like That
- The Young Man’s Tale
- And Then There Were Three
Special Needs and Overseas Schools
- My Son, the Axe Murderer
- ADHD and the Foreign Service Part One: the Teenager in Question
- ADHD and the Foreign Service Part Two: The Bidding System Pretty Much Sucks for Special Needs
- ADHD and the Foreign Service Part Three: Between the Needs of the Service and the Needs of our Kid, Guess Who Wins?
- ADHD and the Foreign Service Part Four: Things Are Looking Up (Sort Of)
- ADHD and the Foreign Service Part Five: And They All Lived Happily Ever After (Even with ADHD)
- The Boy with Three Moms
- Educating Square Pegs in the Foreign Service
- So, Apparently Overseas Schools are a Thing
Retirement (from the Foreign Service)
- Silver Linings
- Taking the Road Less Traveled (Or How My Mid-Life Crisis is Turning Out To Be Super Boring)
- The “R” Word
Miscellaneous Foreign Service Topics and Rants
- Potties: a Foreign Service Retrospective
- How the Other Half Lives
- On Learning Languages as a “Mature” Person
- It’s Complicated (Christmas overseas)
- Is It Just Me?
- State is Wearing Those Mad Men Goggles Again
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of a Tour
- So, We Have This Really Cool Community Website
- It’s the Little Things
- The N Word (and the C Word and the A Word)
- When You’re Married to a Travelin’ Man
- Dear Person Who Is Currently Living in My Warsaw Apartment
- Interview with Expat Focus
- The Green-Eyed Monster
- Yes, I Do Actually Have a Problem With This
- The Christmas Curve
- Just Winging It
- Anger Management and the Foreign Service Spouse
- What Do Expat Spouses Do All Day?
- I Just Have One of Those Faces
Bidding
- In Which I Am Shocked to Discover That I No Longer Loathe Foreign Service Bidding
- So This is How Weird My Life Is
- Neither Here Nor There
- Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day
- Handshake Season
- Here’s How it Should Be
- Get Your Post Online Already
Packing Out
- Top Ten Ways I Can Tell We Are Moving
- Bye-Bye Kitty
- Waiting on Number Three
- Yep, That’s Three
- Coming Up for Air
- 84 Books
- The Packout Dreams Have Started
- All the Weird Stuff We Have to Eat
- What the F*** is This and Why is it in My Basement?
- Closing Ceremonies
- There Goes My Brain
- Petrified Socks
- This Is My Brain On Moving
- Oh Right, I Forgot About This Part
- Moving Brain
Foreign Service Housing and Super-Awesome Furniture Options
- Drexel Hell
- Of Blue Brocade and Builder Brass
- The Big Cover-Up
- Dealing with Drexel Decor
- We’re Movin’ On Up!
- Just This Side of Chaos
- Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work
- Quick and Dirty Ethnoplunder Solution
- The Poopy Blue Brocade Sofa of Doom
- Embassy Housing Hack: Kitchen Decals
- Embassy Housing Hack: Patio to Catio
- A Bit Less Shiny Brass and Harvest Gold, Please
- Drexel Chairs: Boring to Boho!
- Embassy Housing Hack: Velcro Bathroom Cover-up
Renovating Houses
The first house: a run-down rambler in the woods of Reston, VA. I never quite grew to love the place–though I did eventually like it a lot.
- House Love? Not so Much
- More House Like: the Kitchen
- More House Like: Thrifty Bathroom Renovation
- More House Like: Bomb Shelter
- Yet More House Like: Dining Room, Living Room, Bedrooms
The second house: a little three-bedroom place that was decorated like a bordello and sucked up primer like a sponge…
Well, That Was Different 