2009-04-30 21:35
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Musings from an American writer adjusting to life in Cambridge, England.
2009-04-16 12:48
For nearly two months after our arrival in England three years ago, we lived in various hotel rooms, in various buildings, in and very near the base, waiting for our home in Cambridge to be… Read More
2009-03-23 22:20
This September, a memorable, rather unusual clock was installed on an outer corner of Corpus Christi College, facing King's Parade. Designed by Dr John Taylor, it features a giant gold disk… Read More
2009-03-11 22:35
We visited the family castle over the weekend. It has an impressive keep, inner courtyards, a couple of corner towers, the remains of a moat, and even a terraced garden. I'm ready to move in… Read More
2009-03-01 13:42
Last week, I attended a conference at a Cambridge college located on the other side of the city. My original plan had been to brave the Uni 4 bus, but decided at the last minute to make the… Read More
2009-02-22 20:49
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, has enticed me ever since I first read about its unusual architecture. I imagine my first introduction to it was in a New York Times story, sometime a… Read More
2009-02-12 23:12
Every once and a while, the wind blows so hard here that it knocks tears out of my eyes. It's a little embarrassing. I'll be walking down the street, intent on getting to work, and a stream… Read More
2009-02-03 13:28
The Minster was as I remembered it. Stately and imposing, formidable and delicate, its beauty only enhanced by the snow which provided a pure border around its base and a layer of lace to it… Read More
2009-01-18 21:26
After Thursday's adventure on the top of my office building, how could I possibly turn down the opportunity on Friday to take a look at Cambridge from the vantage point of Great St Mary's ro… Read More
2009-01-15 23:16
For someone who professes to not like heights, I've climbed quite a few spiral staircases and ladders since moving to England. Most have been in castles or churches, but today, I had the cha… Read More
2009-01-07 17:50
At a little past 11:30 on the last night of 2007, we braved the cold of a Scottish night and exited a cottage to join the New Year's revellers in a small Perthshire village. The ceilidh musi… Read More
2008-12-24 12:52
I walked into the city centre at lunch yesterday and saw the giant truck parked in front of King's College that in Cambridge announces that Christmas is nigh: the BBC is here to record the 9… Read More
2008-12-14 17:30
Hi. My name is Susie and I'm a military wife.There. I've said it. I've been a military wife for just about as long as I've been a wife, but while being a wife has been a surprisingly easy id… Read More
2008-11-30 19:38
I am enjoying the waning hours of a luxurious four days away from the office. As you might imagine, Thanksgiving is not a public holiday here, so I used up precious 'holiday' time for my hom… Read More
2008-11-17 22:58
Every once and a while, a girl needs to have her Taco Bell. She needs to spot Ohio State ball caps, see dollar signs on price tags, walk past mailboxes painted blue and eat cookies no one wo… Read More
2008-11-10 22:50
We're standing in a large, cluttered museum gallery, feeling a bit dwarfed by a massive Native American totem pole, which towers nearby. Only about eight of us have showed up for this brief… Read More
2008-11-05 23:00
It was Wil's alarm that first woke me today, a measured BBC voice speaking words that didn't matter. In the few seconds that the voice clipped through the air, before my husband's arm reache… Read More
2008-10-26 18:03
One of the things that Wil and I have noticed about many -- many, not all -- of our American friends over here is their tendency to travel with speed. Wil has often taken it on the chin fro… Read More
2008-09-24 22:52
The good news is...we're going on another trip!The bad news is...we're going on another trip!I should be a travel agent. Train schedules, hotel bookings, maps and bus timetables and, yes, mu… Read More
2008-09-11 07:04
I'd avowed that we were going to sit still for the weekend. Predictions of rain, in some cases extremely heavy, throughout the country. Lots of stress at work, leaving me drained and tired… Read More
2008-09-04 07:09
On Monday, I made the conscious effort at lunchtime to leave my desk, walk to a sandwich place beyond the market square, and then walk a bit in the city. Too, too often, I end up running out… Read More
2008-08-31 12:26
After five days in a rather soggy Ireland, and with just a few hours before we were to board a plane in Shannon, Wil and I were content to settle our damp selves onto a couple of cafe chairs… Read More
2008-08-20 07:05
I miss the Olympics. Watching it here just doesn't have the same shiny American gleam to it. It's all Team GB this, Team GB that. If it weren't for miracle swimmer Michael Phelps, I'd barely… Read More
2008-08-07 19:37
I like corners, geographically speaking. Back in the US, I took great joy in being able to say I had travelled east, really east, as in in-its-own-timezone east, a vast and wondrous place ca… Read More
2008-07-22 20:57
Wil is away in the States this week, so I'm on my own to see to it my belly gets filled. When I finish this post, I'll be boiling a pot of water so I can cook me up a big ol' helping of Kraf… Read More
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