Colombia 🇨🇴 is a very special country for me, because it received my father when he fled his native Austria in 1938. He managed to extricate his parents the following year, and my paternal grandparents lived happily in Colombia for the rest of their lives. I never met my

I wanted to leave a little of myself behind, so I left little stones from our backyard in 🇺🇸 on the gravestones with my family’s names on them. I carried those little stones in my suit pockets as I attended the funeral services for slain Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay this

Bogotá has such a different vibe for me than other Latin American cities, and I think it’s in part because of the ubiquitous red brick buildings. I can’t think of another city in the region where they similarly define the urban landscape. Does anyone know how this came about?

Was driving through some very narrow streets this morning. I slow down to a crawl, the pedestrians move into a single file or step off the road, and we wave as we pass each other. It’s a silent kinship because we all understand and appreciate the rules. Just another reminder that

While serving as US Ambassador to Mexico, I occasionally had to apologize for offensive or disrespectful activities by our citizens in their country. I always regarded such incidents as aberrations that did not reflect, and indeed contradicted, our national character. Conversely,

We need this at the State Department.

I don’t know if others feel the same way, but parallel parking tends to elicit a strong emotional reaction from me. There are few greater dopamine hits than getting the angle just right and gliding into the spot just close enough to, but not touching, the curb. Conversely, there

More than 29 years ago, I asked this gentleman for his daughter’s hand in marriage and he agreed (and so, thankfully, did she). Today, just over a week after his 86th birthday, my father-in-law Robert Bruce lost his battle with cancer. He was the kind of guy who was always the

Nos han conmovido todos los mensajes de solidaridad y apoyo provenientes de México. Nuestra familia les agradece y les extraña. 🙏

Más niche imposible. Como lo reconoció Orwell, el socialismo siempre termina en lo mismo: “todos somos iguales, pero algunos más que otros.” Triste que a estos jóvenes les mancha el narcotráfico y el hampa del Cártel de los Soles.

My wife has been traveling for a few weeks and I’ve been on my own in the kitchen. I just discovered these sweet potatoes in a drawer but they’ve obviously been there for a while and now look more like aliens than food. Eat or don’t eat? It’s not as if I have a lot of options.

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UPDATE 🚨: The sweet potatoes were NOT happy with me for posting about them.

My performance as Deputy Secretary of State has apparently come to the attention of RemX, a professional staffing firm, because I have just received a text from them offering me a rewarding remote work opportunity. As tempting as this offer sounds (“working entirely from home,

I had the pleasure and honor of sharing the stage with Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point event in Arizona several years ago, and was struck then and since by his talent and his passion. Like many Americans, I'm in shock that he was murdered in cold blood today doing what he

In light of yesterday’s horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country. I have been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light

One of the nice things about being a dad is that your kid can forget that you’re traveling in a time zone 13 hours ahead, call you at 4:30 am when you’ve finally managed to fall asleep despite the jetlag, and you’re still delighted to talk. ✈️📞🛌💤

When we go out for dinner, our family often opts for Korean food—but none of us had ever been to Korea! Until today. I arrived just as dusk was descending on Seoul and fought through the jet lag for some quick Korean barbecue, one of my favorite meals. Then a quick walk around

When I travel, I like to escape the fancy international hotels as fast as possible to sample the local fare. Today for breakfast in Seoul I tried “bugeo guk,” a hearty Korean fish stew at a tiny restaurant in which this was the ONLY item on the menu and I had to wait in line to

One of my favorite aspects of travel is attending church services in different countries—there’s always some unique twist. Today I was blessed to attend Mass in English at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, and was impressed to see the church full of both Koreans