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Love on an even keel 26 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Having been in a long distance relationship for seven years and now having lived with that person for an additional seven years, I think I’m at least a little bit qualified to talk about the transitio...
Not quite royalists over here 23 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
We talked about the baby at work only because I brought it up. I have had 12 emails from American friends and family asking what it’s been like in London as we waited for news of The Royal Baby. My an...
Heating up 17 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Everyone thinks the United Kingdom is all abuzz with Royal Baby Fever*, but the only fever we really have over here is due to the weather. It is hot. Like in the 90s. That’s not normal. Trains are del...
How to celebrate the Fourth of July in England 3 Jul 2013 | 10:59 pm
This year, I’ll be celebrating Independence Day in England. Kind of funny, that. It’s not my first Fourth of July in the United Kingdom but I do usually spend the holiday in the US. My summer trips ba...
Go big or go home 24 Jun 2013 | 11:32 pm
I was in Liverpool this weekend, celebrating a friend’s bachelorette party, or hen party as it is called in the UK. We chose Liverpool because the American bride-to-be had always wanted to visit the n...
Secondhand finds 14 Jun 2013 | 06:15 pm
I had found a Pottery Barn kitchen table and four chairs for sale on one of those online classifieds sites. (Truth be told, I have an alert set up for “Pottery Barn” so I can see everything PB sold in...
Weights and measures 5 Jun 2013 | 01:00 am
Remember in school when your teachers would hand out a test and they would stress over and over again to read the instructions before beginning? The teachers sometimes hid answers in the paragraph of ...
From the bottom of my heart 28 May 2013 | 11:50 pm
Soon I will have lived outside the United States as long as I have lived in it. Monday marked my seventh year living in England indefinitely. Add another for the year I lived in London before I knew I...
Honey Boo Boo who? 15 May 2013 | 12:58 am
London paper this morning: Honey Boo Boo has arrived on these shores. She’s being referred to as “America’s biggest new star” in all the advertisements. I’m cringing. (I’m also definitely tuning in. T...
Woman’s best friend 13 May 2013 | 09:30 pm
I didn’t get a dog for our anniversary, so I’ll just have to make do with petting this: Scott couldn’t think of anything that qualified as wool or copper–the traditional seventh wedding anniversary gi...
