Mark Schaver

A friend shared this flier he received at his home last week. It links to a website, StopDSAUSA.com, offering similar deep thinking about politics today. For whatever reason, the author isn’t willing to put their name behind their ideas.

It’s good to know there are only two sides to choose from.

I didn’t expect my mother’s death to immediately follow my retirement, but it did.

I am the executor of her estate, so her death will delay my plans to jump into writing again.

Today is my last day with the U.S. State Department.

I turned 65 this month. That’s the mandatory retirement age for foreign service officers.

I haven’t written much publicly since 2014, when I left the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and moved from Louisville, Kentucky to Washington to become a diplomat.

Now that I’m retired, I’m going to do some writing here. About what, I’m not entirely sure, although it will certainly include journalism and diplomacy.