I last left you (on this topic) when we were first understanding what the bloody hell we’d got ourselves into with our son wanting to go to College here. We’re not up…
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for me. As many of you know my son is in his senior year at school. But what does this opening sentence have to do…
Updated January 24, 2018; First published September 13, 2017 It’s time to talk about Health Insurance in the USA. I’ve bitten my tongue for the last four years but enough’s enough and…
It’s time for my weekly look at the differences between Americans and Australians. This happened to me last night. I don’t think this would happen in Australia but I’d love to get…
Difference between Americans and Australians: guns Another week, another shooting. But it’s not about the guns. Guns don’t kill people. No wait, the bullets do, no the people do. Wait, who kills…
Open letter. To: Fox News. Fox & Friends. Calling for the sacking of your presenters, Tucker Carlson and Anna Kooiman, for their completely un-educated and ill-informed views on one of your shows,…
I’m getting back in the swing of LA life again—thank god!!! I guess that’s what happens once you’ve vented and you know there’s nothing else to do but get up & get…
I don’t know why but for me there always seem to be more opportunities open to me as an Expat then as a local in my own country. It could have a…
Can we laugh at ourselves, meaning Australians , British, American, South Africans, Chinese whatever race you are? Can we take it when another race has a go at us? (Hopefully it’s a…
Labelling. I despise it. Unless a doctor needs it for genetic or medical reasons, quit labelling me. I never know how to tick those boxes. Would I be known as a Welsh…
Update with cause of death: May 5, 2014 We’ve all been shocked by the news of yet another celebrity deaths. Today’s news is sad because at 25 Peaches Geldof was not only…
I posted on my personal Facebook page last night that I’m feeling quite homesick. No one could more shocked about this news than me. It was here on this very blog that…
I’m living in Beverly Hills surrounded by people with full-time housekeepers. When we left Australia I had a cleaner come each week. I was under the impression it was cheaper in the…
I got a call from a really good friend of ours to tell me that he & his family are moving to London for 2-3 years. Evidently his recent visit over here…
I started watching “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” the other day. Seriously? I don’t know what to think. Apart from being hooked I don’t why on earth these kids would subject themselves…
Every year around the beginning of the year we go through a similar scenario–rather scenarios, plural. It’s the start of a brand new year and you have the best intentions to improve…