Back… home?

For the first time in 15 months, I’m in England.  And guess what – it’s raining!
Well not now, but it was earlier.  But that’s not the point anyway, and even if it was, you have to laugh about it, otherwise you’d cry.  But this isn’t exactly a joyous ‘homecoming’.  I can’t say I missed England much [...]

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Solitary sojourns of my mind

Earlier today, while lying on my bed listening to the strains of Pascale Picard’s Gate 22 on the radio and watching a trio of flies who had found their way in through my open window and were lazily buzzing through the hot air in a rectangular pattern a few inches below my ceiling, I began thinking about [...]

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You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy

I decided to ‘go back to my roots’ (or at least to where I was born) this evening by making fajitas for dinner. It’s been almost a year since I last had them (they’re a summer-ish food anyway, especially in a relatively mild European climate), and maybe this is just my inner-Texan speaking (let’s [...]

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I MUST choose a nationality

So says a guy I met at a friend’s leaving party last Friday night (or was it morning? To be honest, the hours just kind of blended together…). The conversation was something like this:

[Joke in French which I didn't get, because of some cultural reference I don't understand (and still don't d'ailleurs, even [...]

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