Almost American

We didn't do science fairs at school when I was growing up in the UK. I think they're a cool idea - though the quality of the projec...

The whole world has been shocked by the devastation wreaked by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A little girl I know has decided she wan...

I live in a small New England town - the kind of place where you have to be careful what you say about anyone because there are days when it...

I entered a giveaway on the Pond Parleys website at the beginning of the month for a set of pictures from Miniature Picture Cards and was ...

That white stuff outside the window? 18" of snow and ice :-(  Thank you Trader Joe's - $3 was cheap for a little bit of spring!

Stop the snow! This is the end of our street. There's a road under there somewhere! (More snow forecast for Feb 21st - at least it...

Every year thousands of American students spend some time studying in the UK. Most are participating in exchange programs, but a select few ...

. . . I noticed this entry for last night: Maybe someone at the Department of Homeland Security was just bored at work on a Sunday evenin...

Ice sculpture downtown this weekend Not everyone in the world celebrates St Valentine's Day, although Hallmark is working hard at cha...

DS suggested this evening that we might like to celebrate Valentine's Day on Sunday because it's not a school day and we won't b...

There's nothing quite like being woken up by an insistent beeping, realizing it's not your alarm clock and then figuring out it is s...

Following up to the last post . . . I went out to the compost bin yesterday.  I followed the path that DH had snowblowed across the lawn ...

We try to be good about recycling as much as we can - we have several containers in the garage for paper, plastic glass and so on and most o...

One of the things my husband was hoping to avoid when we moved house was having to do too much raking in the fall. Our old house was surroun...

Six Nations rugby is coming to BBC America again this year :-) Hmm - it conflicts with DS's basketball . . . What to do, what to do? (...

Although the temperature is minus 28˚C this morning, it doesn't feel any colder than that because there is currently no wind chill. The...

I spent 2 hours on Saturday morning outside our local supermarket helping my daughter's Girl Scout troop sell crack cookies. I thought ...

As it's MLK Day, there is no school today. I was determined not to have the children stay inside watching TV all day (as they would if I...

A few days ago Sarah was commenting that it was a bit parky in Oklahoma. I was feeling quite happy that it was warmer here up north. Not a...

The fridge was just a fridge when I was growing up. Nowadays, we decorate our fridges with magnets, kids' artwork, postcards, calendars,...