Sherwood Family Nonsense

  As I was driving up to my friend's house at the conclusion of our last girls weekend, she turned to me with an excited face, "Do ...

This week, Sophia turned thirteen, which means that I now have two teenagers in my house.  When I mentioned this to Sophia, she looked at me...

We're starting to wrap up our tour here in Tashkent, with our departure date two months away.  A tour always seems like it was short whe...

For the last two months, I've been dreaming of strawberries.  Every time I would pull out another tired apple or orange from the refrige...

Eleanor turned seven this week.  I have always regarded Eleanor as being the oldest of my three babies.  I've been able to maintain that...

In the Foreign Service, there are various posts that have lots of interesting local handicrafts to buy, and these place are often referred t...

Elizabeth turns eighteen months this week, which means that she is definitely no longer a baby.  She hasn't been a baby for quite some t...

Back in February, we thought that spring had arrived.  It was early for Tashkent, but I remember experiencing an equally early spring back i...

Brandon and I have wanted to go to a buzkashi game ever since we first heard about them before moving to Dushanbe.  Buzkashi is a Central As...