I’ve reached two weeks in the house. Hi. How are we all? In between watching my kid do yoga (I’m jealous of her calm) and washing my hands, I’ve been writing down my thoughts. And if you read me for the life updates, I’ve been um, upgraded since this interesting mishap. Honestly, when we moved back to Edinburgh, I imagined a little more social and less social distancing. But here we are. For my part, here’s a little list I…
This post is an update on our move, while simultaneously trying not to talk about the move. Stick with me. I recently read somewhere that the average person moves 11.7 times in their life. That’s a US census thing. Some thoughts: What’s ‘average’? What’s the .7? I suck at numbers, but by my finger counting, this will be my 18th move, and I’m going to share some more moving statistics throughout this post. I’m not being smug. I’m not above…
If we were having coffee, I’d ask how’re you doing? I know it’s been a while. Picture this, on Monday. ‘Isla, get dressed, please.’ ‘I hafta finish my toast.’ Good point, go with that. ‘Isla, get dressed now.’ ‘I hafta finish my juice.’ OK, vitamins. ‘Isla, get dressed.’ ‘Well, your hair is either grey, or the color of poo.’ I got nothin’. ‘Mummy, do penguins have a good sense of smell?’ Survey says: maybe. And so began our morning routine…
I’m sitting here at my sliver of kitchen table surrounded by books and drawings and wilted flowers. More on my writing environment is over here. I know I haven’t written in a week. Yesterday it took 8 hours to upload my first Q and A video. The Gin & Lemonade trailer is here: Before I edited the trailer I was Laura from German Lemonade. Hi. (If real captions don’t appear automatically, hit cc on bottom right of screen.) After the…
The TV show Friends started before I left New York and ended when I’d been in Scotland for quite a long time. It was my constant in that period of transition, and others. It eased some third-culture issues, and won me some friends with my Janice impression. I’d sit and count the references to Long Island, when I missed it. It saw me through the deaths of my grandparents, the dissolving of the family I came over here for, and…
