The Foreign Service Journal, November 2007

national publications, including the FSJ . He lives in La Luz, New Mexico, with his wife, Etrennes. SPECIALTY Realities of Foreign Service Life, Volume 2 Edited by Melissa Hess, Patricia Linderman and Marlene Monfiletto Nice, iUniverse, 2007, $20.95 plus shipping and handling, paperback, 250 pages. This is the second volume of the popular and very useful title sponsored by the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide. The first installment, released in 2004, contains more than 30 essays by FS members and their spouses on every aspect of life in the Foreign Service. This new volume also focuses on the realities faced by diplomats and their families outside the embassy or consulate walls. Here, 29 writers from the Foreign Service community — including officers, specialists, spouses and one articulate teen — explore such topics as housing and schooling abroad, intercultural mar- riage, spouse employment, political discussions with host-country nationals and the rising number of unac- companied assignments. Like the first volume, this book serves as a “reality check,” detailing both the positive and negative aspects of Foreign Service life, for partners and children as well as employees. Co-editors Melissa Brayer-Hess, Patricia Linder- man and Marlene Monfiletto Nice are longtime members of the Foreign Service community. Brayer- Hess, an FS spouse, is currently deputy director in the Crisis Management Training Division of the Leadership and Management School, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Arlington, Va. Linderman, also an FS spouse, is editor in chief of Tales from a Small Planet (www.talesmag.com ) and Monfiletto Nice, a former newspaper reporter and editor, accompanied her husband to three overseas posts before becoming a Foreign Service officer her- self in 2005. N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 39 Interim Accommodations for Corporate and Government Markets Apartments, Townhouses & Single Family Homes “FOR THE EXECUTIVE ON THE MOVE” finder5@IX.netcom.com Locations throughout Northern Virginia and D.C. Units fully furnished, equipped and accessorized Many “Walk to Metro” locations Pet Friendly 5105-L Backlick Road, Annandale, Virginia Tel: (703) 354-4070 Fax: (703) 642-3619 Executive Lodging Alternatives