Almost American

Last summer when one of the baby bunnies in our back yard narrowly avoided being hit by the weedwhacker , my daughter christened him/her Luc...

No daffodils yet, though I saw some this morning on my way to work that looked as though the flowers will be out within the next few days. T...

. . . when you're having fun. So I must be having lots of fun then! It is really hard to believe that I've been in the United States...

When I came to the United States, it was to do a Master's degree. I could have done that in the UK, though quite frankly at the time it ...

In the "Unclear on the concept" category: No, it's not a trash can/rubbish bin - it's a sap bucket!

(Image from At Home in the Upper Valley .) When it's mud season and you're visiting friends who live at the end of a long dirt driv...

It is sugaring season again here. Last week on my commute I saw the first sapbuckets out - a real sign that spring is on its way. We'll...

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...

I remember a January day my very first winter in New England - walking across the quiet, almost empty, university campus and really enjoying...

We don't get half term holidays over here, but we do have this week off school anyway. The school year here is 10 days shorter than in t...

Several of the bloggers I read have been participating in the 5 questions interview meme. I volunteered to have Not from Around Here interv...

Both children are usually pretty good eaters. They like a lot of things I'm told many other children their age won't eat. But for so...

Apparently just before Christmas DD was making plans for her future. I found the following written on a small scrap of paper hidden under he...

One can only hope!

Not from Around Here pointed me in the direction of an excellent post on depression and culture shock on An American Bedu's blog . The...

From The Independent newspaper, January 10, 2009: For more than 20 years, the vast majority of British visitors to America have entered ...

A little late because we've been away and I didn't plan ahead to have a post appear on New Year's Day, but Happy New Year anyway...

I was inspired this afternoon by the beautiful artwork at Chewy's blogsite, " The Back of my Headboard ," particularly by the ...

We've been using Skype for a while now to call family in the UK. I think the first time I logged in to Skype there were fewer than a mi...

It didn't start snowing until almost 1 o'clock this afternoon, but school was cancelled for the day anyway. The kids and I had a laz...