Brits in the USA

Giving up my job after more than 20 years on newspapers, with just the occasional interruption, felt surreal. It still does. But I had ...

The Eighties can seem inconsequential in retrospect. My memories of the decade of bad taste are condensed into a montage of boldly stripy s...

The 1992 movie The Bodyguard starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner wasn't a particularly clever or good movie. The plot was predic...

Sometimes when I watch the kids I wonder what experiences they will remember as adults and which ones will pass them by. Why is memory so...

Well I was going to write a post about Groundhog Day today. Then I  thought of being lazy and reposting last year's post about Groundho...

Sometimes I wonder about Chris; but not very often. When I first arrived in rural North Carolina and ended up working on a small town news...

The news that former staff at Woolworths have been awarded a total of 67.8 million (what no pound sign on this infernal computer??) in com...

Today I started finding material to send to a national magazine that is looking for freelance writers. I thought this woudn't be a pro...

A strange thing happened to me this morning when I tried to get hold of someone from the bank. The strange thing was the fact I managed to...

There's a simplicity to southern skies, a shining symmetry that we don't always appreciate until it's gone. We walk under so ...

Time was I could rely on penguins to cheer me up. No longer. Just their fluffy buzzard heads (which I know is a bird mixed metaphor) and th...