Almost American

I get more spam comments than real ones at this blog. That's OK - Blogger filters them out very effectively and it takes no time to hit ...

No, I'm not away on some exciting vacation . . . Just very busy with work and family, and not inspired to blog. No, not even about the R...

I live in a small New England town - the kind of place where you have to be careful what you say about anyone because there are days when it...

I entered a giveaway on the Pond Parleys website at the beginning of the month for a set of pictures from Miniature Picture Cards and was ...

LBJ at Crankymonkeys in London had a giveaway of some Christmas ornaments and I won! It made my day - thanks LBJ! If you haven't visi...

Here are some more of the search terms people have used that brought them to my blog in the last few weeks. Some are fairly obvious. It'...

I do like looking through the list of of search terms used by people who found my blog. Searches for Smarties vs M&Ms seem to have fin...

Since starting to blog, and choosing to blog much of the time about being an expat, I have met many other expats online. Michael Harling is ...

I find it interesting to look at the search terms that have led people to my blog. There's a wide variety and looking at them I see how ...

Expat Kat at The Pea Green Boat just gave me this award: According to the authors of this award, this blog invests and believes in the PROX...

Joseph O'Neil was the second author interviewed for NPR's series on Becoming American. He talked of how the decision to emigrate ha...

I know these online tests of 'intelligence' are really very silly, but I still like it when I do well! Just wondering though, who on...

I was a little surprised looking at the stats for this blog tonight to find that almost a quarter of the people who got here via a search en...

Back in February, DD decided that she wanted a blog of her own. It seemed as though it would be a good way to get her to improve her writing...

Hmm - I tried this test on some of the blogs that I read and most are apparently written at an elementary school reading level, with a few a...