The flotilla of “little boats,” Dunkirk, 1940
The evacuation of Dunkirk in which 338,000 British troops were rescued from the Nazi onslaught in June 1940 by the “little …
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Why We Loved the Queen Mum
1. Because after the Nazis came close to killing her and her husband King George VI when they bombed Buckingham …
A soccer mom from Boston, Massachusetts, goes fashion forward in the Peak District of Derbyshire
This is a piece I wrote during our “trial run” when my daughters and I spent four months living in …
I feel bad about my teeth
With apologies to Nora Ephron, who felt bad about her neck and wrote an entire book about it, here’s a …
Keeping what’s important
I once had a not-very-nice neighbor who objected to my stuff in my portion of our shared basement. She particularly …
Bleak House: 3BR, unfurn.
October 6th: we moved into our own place today. There has been a gap of three weeks between my signing …
The Year of Living Englishly 