I pulled out the photos we got at our family photo session last year for a scrapbooking project, and man, there must have been a lot of dust in the air, because my eyes watered up right away. We missed the chance to get newborn photos of Grace taken in the hospital, due to a communication… Read More On photos of Grace and memories of her as a newborn
Each Sunday, for six weeks, I’ll post three prompts (an introspective prompt, an activity prompt, and a photo prompt) to get us thinking about what we love about Post and this crazy FS life. Use any or none of them, then comment on that week’s post or in the FB group to let us know… Read More Blog Rejuvenation Prompts , Week #2 – FOOD
I started off the year without any resolutions. I swore I was going to “just breathe,” and that’s exactly what I’ve done. The past four months have been among the most mindful of my life. I’ve spent a lot of time making smart decisions. Stopping to take a short breath before I do something and… Read More On the gym being something wonderful I do for myself
Each Sunday, for six weeks, I’ll post three prompts (an introspective prompt, an activity prompt, and a photo prompt) to get us thinking about what we love about Post and this crazy FS life. Use any or none of them, then comment on that week’s post or in the FB group to let us know… Read More FS Spring Blog Prompts #1
I’m working on doing small things that make me happy. There are a lot of things about this FS life that I’m not sold on (remember that my husband and I were literally living the dream in Benin previous to our lives working for The Man), and having a baby and a toddler in a… Read More Working on the blogging habit
One thing my short time in the Foreign Service has taught me is to take advantage of the resources I have. There is an amazing community of Foreign Service bloggers out there, and when I realized that I needed some motivation and community to help me revitalize my own blog, I reached out to my… Read More Spring Foreign Service Blog Rejuvenation
I’ve never felt guilty about being one of the haves. I was born white, middle-class, straight, Protestant to parents who saw that I got a good education, gave me a love of reading and learning, and who were well enough that I could take off to see the world straight out of college. Privilege is… Read More World Food Day and WHERE HAS THERESA BEEN!?
A recent medical disaster in the Carpenter-Sondjo household prompted a great number of discussions in our small household about what we’re willing to share with the world, and what we feel should be strictly private. Blogging, tweeting, and Facebooking came up because we’re both avid communicators and users of social media. Where’s the line? What… Read More On oversharing, undersharing, and plain-old sharing
I have a new job. I mean, a new job in addition to running Benin’s most successful web development firm. Jon Gosier at Appfrica just relaunched and hired my magnificent self to blog about technology, entrepreneurship, and other awesomeness in Africa. I’m getting paid to write about things I love! I know, I know, I… Read More On my new job (yes, I am just that awesome)
It’s been a bit since the last time I posted about turning WordPress into a CMS. I’ve learned a bit more about WordPress, and some really great plugins have come to my attention. WordPress has evolved a bit, and so have the types of sites I work on here in Benin. The following plugins have… Read More WordPress plugins for functioning CMSs, redux