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Minnesota, I’m Coming Home!

I’m less than three weeks from returning to my beloved homeland and man oh man is . . . MINNESOTA ON MY MIND! Bring on the cabin and Caribou and changing temps and State Fair and lawn games and strawberries and sunset at 9 PM and breakfast boat rides and (I could go on forever, but...

The Complexities of a Foreign Service Move (*with flow chart*)

I used to think of moving as a simple (but annoying) process where you threw everything you had into boxes, stuffed them into a Uhaul, drove across town and then unloaded those same boxes into your new place. Oh how I LONG for a move like that…. alas, never again. What I...

Where in the World are the Novaks?

Our Tentative Travel Schedule I’ve been getting lots of questions about our schedule for the next year from friends and family. Although we do not have our official orders yet (which means there’s still a small chance things could change), I’m going to go ahead and post...

Chooka Parker, 16 Year Old Piano Prodigy

Me and heart-touching stories go together like peanut butter and jelly. Suffice to say, this is one of the most remarkable I’ve come across in some time… Please allow me to introduce Chooka Parker, a 16 year old Farmhand from rural Australia. In this clip Chooka is showing up...