‘You OK?’ The cashier at the supermarket asks me. I look up from studying my stumpy nails, smile and respond with; ‘Isn’t that the million-dollar question?’. He laughs, shrugs and mutters something along the lines of ‘Yeah, I guess’. In hindsight, he had every reason...
One of the most profound and accurate things said this week was done so by an Uber driver. Some friends from my home university had flown out to see me, and were currently all faffing about in the back of the car as we drove...
The most common question I get asked when people find out I am from abroad, and more specifically England, is how America compares to across the Atlantic. I always start by commenting on the nicer, if slightly more unpredictable weather– because there is nothing more...
A guy came up to me at a party the other night and asked if I remembered his name. I told him I didn’t, and a large factor of that may have been because I had never seen or met him before in my life....
People scream during earthquakes. They shout helpful things like ‘Earthquake’, and ‘Oh God’ between intermittent breaks for general shrieking. I would not have been able to tell you this until moving to San Francisco, having lived on the small island that is the United Kingdom...
My friend Beth told me she cries on planes. ‘Cries’ may not even be the correct word. Sobs would probably be more fitting; full-frontal, unapologetic convulsions of tears. She painted this horror-filled image of her red-eyed and snotty, leaning into fellow passengers for moral support,...