Yesterday, the 1st of July 2022, was the first time I left the UK in 2 years, a duration of non-travel-abroad time that hasn't happened...

Despite today’s disappointing step backward on the reproductive rights of US women, I’m still trying to feel the good vibes of last...

Happy Father’s Day to dads everywhere but especially the ones who doctor children’s songs to create gentler universes for their kids. I...

By Monday, 13th of June 2022, we will have been married 30 years. Just under ½ our lifetimes. 93% in London. 87% with children. 53%+...

Spanning 14 UK American Presidents, 14 Prime Ministers and 30+ corgis, Queen Elizabeth II has had the longest reign of any British...

People. Peace. Progress. The Power of Partnerships. This is the theme of the 2022 International Day of UN Peacekeepers. The 29th of May...

There’s a TikTok meme that was circulating in the summer of ’21 using the video of the former glamor model, Jayne Connery, saying, “I...

If a picture is worth a thousand words this photo is worth a thousand posts. In May, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month, this...

The Eurotunnel that connects the UK and France opened 28 years ago today in 1994. The tunnel that runs underneath the Channel cost twice...

The birthstone of the month of April is the diamond, a girl’s best friend, they say, according to the song of the musical, Gentlemen...

American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein was sure that a rose is a rose is a rose. It’s what she wrote in her 1913 poem,...

twelve cherry blossoms for sunny blue skies save up for rainy grey days

This is the master of our house, Blaze, a few years back. He’s 15 now so there’s a little less scaling fences and hunting pigeons and...

Who do you consult if you want to know the truth? According to an old proverb, it’s children and fools, although the point of the saying,...

A picture of my mom in her 70s, this is a woman known for: ditching US occupied Japan after WWII for a scholarship in the enemy country;...

I celebrated my birthday today at lunch with a friend’s lovely daughter because we have the same birthdate. Apparently there’s a thing...

Here’s a picture of my paternal Baaba featured as the 1930s pinup girl in Tanaka Atsuko’s book on kimono beauties (2006).[1] I thought...

Growing up in my mother’s bubble, I didn’t know that Tomboy was a pejorative word. I didn’t know about sexism or misogyny and truly...

I first met my husband over a bowl of chili from Booeymonger in Washington, DC. As a Frenchman in the US, he’d become a serious fan of...

Storm Eunice has put London and many other cities in the UK on high weather alert today. Advised to stay at home to avoid all...