Almost American

Wife in Hong Kong tagged me for this meme: 1. What are your current obsessions? Obsessions? I never obsess about anything ;-) 2. Which item...

Wow - someone actually got paid $10,000 for this! It was created for a competition, but I didn't even see the name of the sponsoring com...

How many recipes do you know by heart? The UKTV Food channel recently surveyed 3,000 British people about their cooking habits and discovere...

I don't remember the song about Little Bunny Foo Foo from my childhood. I remember a friend's 6 year-old daughter singing it to me w...

The show All Things Considered on National Public Radio started a 5 part series today, 'Revisiting the Road to Canterbury', on Brit...

Although we don't live far from the center of town, there is a lot of wildlife to be seen around here. We've seen bear, a bobcat, wi...

Only one of the children is home this evening. DS asked when he got home from school if he can sleep in DD's bed instead of his own toni...

I didn't see any April Fool's Day stories today that were as good as last year's flying penguins story from the BBC, but I quit...

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...