Almost American

I guess this explains why national flags are far less in evidence in England than in the US: Currently it is illegal to fly a national flag ...

I recently found this MSNBC site about Being An American . I tend to think of Americans as being more visibly patriotic in general than the...

The view from outside is often only of the things that hit the news headlines - the murders, the problems, the disasters. Outsiders hear of ...

The Belief-o-matic quiz says my religious tendencies are as follows: 1. Liberal Quakers (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Mainlin...

It's funny how different a culture looks when you view it from the outside. I had never thought of my culture as being particularly alco...

When I left the UK to do a Master's degree in the US, many of my friends and colleagues in the UK wondered why on earth I would want to ...

I came to the United States in 1985, expecting to stay 2 years. Here I am, almost 21 years later, still here. I've had an American passp...