Adventures and Real Food
When I tell my friends in the U.S. that I am heading home for a visit, meaning that I’m going back to the U.K., they typically respond with: “You still call it home?” And yes, yes I do. It is too deeply a part of me to deny it that privilege, even though I have…
After 13 years, I returned to the Baja Peninsula for a quick vacation and saw a lot of changes have happened in the intervening years.
As the world mourns the passing of Sinéad O’Connor—especially those of us who were in our formative college years when “Nothing Compares 2 U” topped the UK charts for four weeks in a row in 1990—I still mourn the loss of my dad who would have turned 84 this week. And I’ll echo the lyrics…
I don’t think there is any way to prepare for being an expatriate. What started out as a couple of years fun in San Francisco back in 1998, has, in the blink of an eye, become 24 years of living on the Left Coast, aka Northern California. You find yourself, much to your surprise, deeply…
I first stepped foot in Hawaii in 1998. A girlfriend had booked us a trip to Maui, and as a new immigrant to San Francisco I was entirely in her hands. I remember stepping off the plane, feeling the windy, balmy air on my face for the first time, and hearing the rustle of palm…
A bit about me... I grew up in the UK and moved to Northern California in the late 1990s, drawn here, like so many others, by the lure of the dot.com ...
