Black Friday without Thanksgiving
Ever since I moved to the UK nearly 18 years ago, each year I say “this year, I’m going to make a Thanksgiving dinner”. And I haven’t done
The Evolution of Halloween in England
Today is Halloween. And I can't believe how much it has changed in the 16 years I lived here. When I moved to England in 1998, going trick-or-treating
Weever Fish . . .ouch!
This weekend I took my family to the beach. I sometimes forget that you can go to the beach in England. It is only an hour and a half away.
Happy Fourth from Outside of America
Yesterday was American Independence Day. I've been living in England for 15 years now, but I still really miss the fourth of July. My dad asked last week
More snow
We had about 3 or 4 inches of snow on Saturday. This is very exciting in England. It causes chaos all over the place. On Monday, the airports were still
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a strange holiday for me. To me, it’s like a holiday that used to be really important, but then everyone in the world stopped celebrating it. Of
The Cornbury Festival 2010
Last weekend I took my family to the Cornbury Music Festival near Witney in Oxfordshire. It was my first music festival—there weren’t many (I don’t know if