Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Adventures in foreign shopping

As you may have noticed, I have nothing else to do, so I spend a lot of time thinking about the places I’ve traveled to, and all the ways I’ve managed to screw them up. My friends accuse me of destabilizing long, successful regimes in foreign countries, because usually right after I leave somewhere, the government falls apart. This is no joke. There was a military coup in Thailand, which formerly had a stable government. After we went to Egypt, there was the Arab Spring. And rioting