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John McCain Crashed His Plane Just Outside Our New Flat
August 11, 2015

John McCain Crashed His Plane Just Outside Our New Flat

It was a few years ago (1967), but still- he ejected just over there- you can see it from our living room window.   About two weeks ago, we moved house. Again. I may have mentioned the reluctant need to uproot, yet again. The construction …

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Tiny Notes From Hanoi: It’s Like Downton Abbey, Except Different
November 11, 2014

Tiny Notes From Hanoi: It’s Like Downton Abbey, Except Different

We have a house, people. A whole house to ourselves, partway down a narrow scooter-wide lane, off a side street, a block from the lake. After two months of living out of suitcases, over a month living with family (both sides, on both sides of …

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This Is Still Not a Mommy Blog (Even Though That’s All I Do All Day)
July 9, 2014

This Is Still Not a Mommy Blog (Even Though That’s All I Do All Day)

Before I spawned my urchin, I was adamant about keeping the metalepsical church and state firmly separated. I read all of those books about the importance of  keeping your grown up self intact and building a life where the baby mostly fits into your rhythms and …

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Waiting For Godot (or a Baby): Notes on Identity, Change and Public Presentation
February 15, 2014

Waiting For Godot (or a Baby): Notes on Identity, Change and Public Presentation

  Any day now, I’m going to have a baby. Like, an actual baby that I get to keep indefinitely. Which is, admittedly, an awfully long time. I still haven’t wrapped my head completely around this concept, even though I’ve been quite pregnant for many …

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I Want to be Sedated: Adventures in Getting my Act Together in Leicester
December 14, 2013

I Want to be Sedated: Adventures in Getting my Act Together in Leicester

People, my mind is muddled like a big ball of muddled things all muddled together with a muddling pestle. I’ve been trying to get my act together to write all of the posts that this particular point in time deserves. Of these, there are many. …

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On Existential Migration, Home, Leaving, and Scaring Yourself Silly
December 6, 2013

On Existential Migration, Home, Leaving, and Scaring Yourself Silly

One day, not so long ago, when we were still in the exhausting throes of impenetrable visa applications and living out of two battered China Post boxes, partly in my parents’ basement and partly in the little house in the big woods where I grew …

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Why, Hello Leicestershire: Notes on Suddenly Moving to Middle England
December 1, 2013

Why, Hello Leicestershire: Notes on Suddenly Moving to Middle England

People, I have moved to England.     The seemingly interminable spouse visa application process suddenly terminated and within a week of getting our surprise approval we were safely ensconced in a ridiculously genteel, chocolate-box village just outside of Leicester. That’s the one pronounced Lester. …

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Killing Time in Familiar Places: Notes on Learning to Enjoy Enforced Stasis
September 30, 2013

Killing Time in Familiar Places: Notes on Learning to Enjoy Enforced Stasis

  It’s been raining for about three days now. The kind of rain that comes with leaden dark white skies, streams of water everywhere, and cacophony on metal roofs. Yesterday, near hurricane winds led to all ferries to and from the mainland being cancelled. A …

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A Totally Impractical Guide to Roughing it in the Wilds of Vancouver Island
September 6, 2013

A Totally Impractical Guide to Roughing it in the Wilds of Vancouver Island

For those of you used to my usual summer missives replete with food porn photos and freshly gleaned insights and wild tales from exotic locales such as Morocco or Sri Lanka or Myanmar or Indonesia, I fear I am letting you down. And for those …

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How to plan a wedding in just three weeks
August 29, 2013

How to plan a wedding in just three weeks

Last Friday, I got married. Married! Moi! To a man! Not a cat, not a mop, not an ambitious travel plan, not an abstract idea! A real live man! For those of you who have known me at least somewhat over the years, this may …

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There has been a slight change of plans, folks
August 20, 2013

There has been a slight change of plans, folks

    Sometimes one or two overly personal and private things can derail your ability to write at length about all the millions of notable and weird and interesting things going on concurrently. Sometimes you don’t want to talk about those things just yet, for …

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We’re Not in the Middle Kingdom Anymore, Toto…
July 23, 2013

We’re Not in the Middle Kingdom Anymore, Toto…

I have a feeling I may need to change the name of this blog, or at the very least acknowledge that its impracticality is about to soar to new heights of uselessness.     I have, you see, buggered off. I’m actually in rainy, green …

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