So you left post. Either for Home Leave or for R&R, you are now for all intents and purposes vagabonds for a few to many weeks. Your world has whittle down to a few suitcases. This is when your resolve to be well will be tested again and again. How do we stay well when we're on the move, especially extended excursions like R&R and Home Leave? How do we keep our wellness habits in mind when we are sitting for hours on end in airports, relying on fast food or potlucks for ou

Every year, you get the question: where are you going this year for your R&R? Every year, you come up with a grand plan, full of fun adventure and exotic locales, …. And then you wake up and book the plane tickets for your home town. You tell yourself: “This year, it’ll be different. This year, it’ll be fun.” And perhaps it will be. But … more often than not, R&R becomes another month in a family basement, or you and your family schlepping from one sofa to the next. We di

One of the most foreign part of Foreign Service life for our families back home is the 4+ weeks of vacation we all get each year. This is NOT the norm for a typical American family. Most families have 'normal' vacations : a week somewhere 'exotic' (Disneyland, here we come!), with a lot of hours in a car, and sand of some sort. Our weeks-on-end of time away from work responsibilies (mostly. Darn Blackberries, anyway) is a hard concept to grasp. In the same light, it's odd