Almost American

Watching TV last night, the weather forecaster commented that although today the temperatures would reach the 90's for a second day in a...

Are they as honest on their 15.25 ounce cans? "Contains only as much corn as the 11 ounce cans." I think not.

in Nelson, New Zealand.

The Little American is practicing for the Memorial Day concert at school on Friday. One of the songs they will be singing is My Country ...

I've just started reading the articles at Writers on America from the US Department of State. It looks as though there is some interest...

I remember someone telling me once shortly after I arrived in the US that a big difference between the US and the UK is the can-do attitude ...

To balance my earlier post on why some Americans shouldn't be allowed to travel - the British on vacation abroad don't have a parti...

I don't remember a bunny ever having anything to do with Easter when I was growing up. He may have shown up at other people's houses...

I remember being shocked in my first few days at university here to see the amount of food and paper serviettes (napkins) that were wasted a...

My quiz results from the blogthings "How American Are You?" quiz: You Are 37% American America: You don't love it or want to l...

Growing up in the UK, I always thought of chewing gum as quintessentially American. It was another of those nasty American habits, like not ...

I wrote back in July 2006 that I only scored 65% on the "Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?" quiz about American ci...

Okay, there are probably some Brits who shouldn't be allowed to travel either, and these stories are probably apocryphal, but this was m...

The candy known as Smarties in the USA is not the same as the Smarties sold in the UK. There's no chocolate involved at all in the Ame...

I'll admit it, I've put on too much weight in the last few years. I have boxes of clothes in the basement that no longer fit. I keep...

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...