Almost American

We were having a family conversation recently about what to have for Christmas lunch. Growing up in the UK, it was almost always turkey. I r...

Ask a class of seven and eight year olds how you prepare a turkey for Thanksgiving and you get some interesting answers. In today's clas...

The Little American made a 'Happy Thanksgiving' card for her cousins in London yesterday. I can't blame her for not realising th...

When I left the UK 21 years ago, Halloween was not a particularly big deal there. We never went trick-or-treating and didn't carve pumpk...

The Littlest American was asking recently if we can go to see the baby penguins and the house where Father Christmas lives again this year. ...

American education blogger Will Richardson wrote about his most recent trip to the UK this week. He feels that in some respects schools in ...

My parents have just spent a couple of weeks in the United States. Not visiting us, sad to say, but travelling to interesting places such as...

Is this another step in my Americanization? This summer my 8 year-old Chevy Malibu ticked over 190,000 miles and it was time for a new vehic...

Life is not a computer game; there is no 2nd level, there are no extra lives Found on this site

This Being American thing keeps sneaking up on me. I was surprised to find myself actually quite annoyed the other night to discover that w...

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...