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18 February – Becky Has a Birthday
So – I turn 34 in a few hours. I am not altogether happy about this. I have never had an age issue before. In New York, 34 is still very prime – or at least primish, but here. Well, here, I have to think of 34 in a I’m 34 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )2 February – Becky Gets a Snowday
Five inches of snow and London is at a standstill. I am from the North East, so this is terribly amusing. Kindergarten wouldn’t be closed for five inches in Massachusetts, so the fact that we are living sans busses, trains and WH Smith is a bit odd. It meant that I had [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )25 January, 2009 – Becky Went to London
One year ago today, I landed in London.
I’ve reread the first blog entries and was struck by how foreign, how strange that voice now seems to me. The early days were marked by tangible discoveries – of oddly shaped heaters, of television licenses, of holidays celebrating breakfast foods. I am, of course, still [...]
19th January – Happy Most Miserable Day of the Year
Happy Most Miserable Day of the Year!* For the past two weeks, we have been warned that today, 19th of January is officially the most miserable day of the year. I awoke to a New York style rain storm. Now you may be saying, but Becky – London and rain – not an odd thing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )6 January – Becky Goes to The Tate
When is detritus just that, and when may it be elevated to something more, and who may be the arbiters of this jetsam?
I’ve spent an illuminating afternoon at The Tate. It was the final day of the Francis Bacon exhibition. Whilst there I viewed the 2008 Turner Prize nominations. I am a [...]
20th November – A Very Special Rowevember Favour
Next week is Thanksgiving, as my American readership will be well aware. I have a great deal to be thankful for this year, and I will be cooking for the 19 of the most important of them next week.
A few of these very clever and rather wonderfully mad people are emulating their boss each Friday [...]
10 November – Becky Goes to Soho
There are some nights more nighty than others, when the darkness has a bit of nutmeg in it and works its tingly through abutting molecules. On nights like these you dance the macabre with sad clowns on unicycles and get trapped within Pan bottles until rattled and released by a supporting character from a Tom [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )23rd October – 25 Years
A child born on October 23, 1983 might be in their third year of medical school, may have just passed the bar, may never pass a bar, might be married with a child of their own born on October 23. They wouldn’t be a kid anymore;* they would be a paid-up, card-carrying adult. This thought [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )8th of October – An Open Letter to Supporters of Sarah Palin
Two of my favourite movies are Dave and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. In each, an American citizen, through only-in-the-movies machinations, become President and Senator respectively. I have watched these films countless times, and am always moved and often inspired. These are stories about regular people who are met with and succeed against extraordinary challenges [...]
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