Brits in the USA

The weekend hasn't been so bad so far. I spent three hours yesterday demonstrating wine from urban Hampton Roads' only winery and to...

So it's finally happened after interminable years of filling in forms and forgetting my social security number. I am about to be granted...

It disturbs me on a level that I can't remember the first time I met my father-in-law. First meetings with inlaws are usually unforget...

I am pleased to report I survived my naturalization test and am now well on the way to becoming well and truly naturalized. I had expected...

Now this is alarming. I have my naturalization test for U.S. Citizenship tomorrow morning and I've only just found a CD of sample questi...

So a week ago I was sitting on a plastic chair on the deck watching the sun set over West Virginia, with a  pleasant and healthy twang in...

They thought they could get away with it but they didn't count on me to be there to remind them. What am I talking about? My female fr...

There was some kind of celebration here in America today, and briefly I felt I should do something about it. I should have knocked the mot...

Another week of writing and blogging and grabbing coffees on the run is at an end. As is the case with most weeks, I've met some great p...

As it turned out those summer evening walks with Yoda were short lived. During his last days Yoda was confined to a downstairs bathroom af...

I confess to going to watch England's game against the USA yesterday with a swagger and a degree of arrogance. Frankly when we are talk...