A Rough Guide to Travel with Babies
A man in his 70s with neatly trimmed silver hair and a clean shaven face sits at a makeshift table in the shadows on a quiet alley behind an empty tuk tuk. He wears nothing but a long green cloth tied around his waist and […]
Over a week ago I spent my Saturday morning striding through the rich red dirt roads of Yambio, South Sudan, with smiling sun-glassed boys on boda-bodas (motorbikes) asking if I needed a lift. By 10am the sun was blaring and I ducked into a small, […]
The way my husband and I balance our world of working, parenting, and living is a bit all over the map. Because we are both consultants sometimes my husband only works, sometimes I only work, and sometimes we work simultaneously. This has allowed me to […]
I travel internationally quite frequently, mostly because the nature of the work my husband and I both do, and we try to travel as much as possible as a family with our toddler in tow. Some people think that sounds like the most amazingly fun […]
Last Thursday evening I set out to Chicago O’Hare with my 20 month old for a 24 hour + plane journey to Kochin, India. I lost track a while ago of how many international trips I’ve taken with my toddler, but we’ve definitely done it […]
Most of our family and friends understand that our careers in international development dictate that my husband and I will be gone traveling out of the country most of the time, packing up baby and all. When we decided to continue bringing our baby with […]
In the July/August 2012 issue of Atlantic Magazine Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department under Hillary Clinton, discusses the struggles of working mothers. She questions if, and suggests that, feminists have sold young women a fiction about “having it […]
I am loving being back home in Chicago where we don’t own a car and primarily use buses and trains to get around. I hate oil changes, car maintenance, and parking. The really wonderful thing about using buses and trains, besides not having to change […]
One of my dearest friends just gave me a delightful gift. It is a little book re-printed from 1889 entitled Hints to Lady Travellers At Home and Abroad. Although the book is quite obviously dated, it still actually contains very practical traveling advice, and is […]
Please visit Project Eve to read my blog, Pumping in Paraguay: I want to work close to the farm, too! My blog is featured today, April 2nd, where I discuss one of my experiences struggling as a new breastfeeding mom while traveling and working internationally. […]