I now pronounce you... A local.
Last weekend, this showed up on my Facebook feed and I can't resist sharing... In this episode of Anglophenia ("British culture with an...
First review for That's Not English
My book, That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us will be published in the U.S. at the end of...
MAGICAL BOOK DAY--LONDON EDITION
A couple of weeks ago, a classmate of my daughter’s gave her a book called Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day by Amy De La Haye and...
Posh People: Compliments are “Creepy”
Last Monday, 1.49 million people in the UK tuned in to a new BBC documentary called Posh People: Inside Tatler. Tatler is a magazine with...
Expat Thanksgiving: Homesickness, Gratitude, and Greed
It has been years since Tom and I made it back to America for Thanksgiving. It comes at a time when we're already beginning to feel...
In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday, which commemorates the sacrifices of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and...
Call the Midwife...
Four years ago, when my daughter was born, I learned that the National Health Service sends a midwife to the home of every mother within...
NOW WE ARE FOUR
Little Henry Moore was born on September 7th--welcome to the world, sweet boy! My stay at the maternity hospital was not all fun and...
SCHOOL DAYS
My four-year-old daughter started "big girl" school this week, and she is so proud. Like 90% kids in England, she wears a uniform. (In...
Lost in Translation: You Call This a Heat Wave?
The weather is really nice in London today. I was surprised when I opened the newspaper over that rarest of treats—an al fresco lunch—to...