Directly after reading that title, you might (probably are) thinking “Well, duh. That’s why they’re called Southern Foods, on account of them being found in the South and all. You dummy”. It’s not as simple as that, though. Often there are foods we don’t realize are so specific to our own country or region until … [Read more…]
Repeat after me – Thou shalt not fuck around with a powerline unless qualified to do so. I’d seen the construction workers next door while we were living in Sydney do stupid shit on various occasions lift unsecured loads with the crane, pretend they were going to throw one of their friends off the roof … [Read more…]
You get used to a few things being different when you move to a new country. Most of them are obvious, some…you just can’t put your finger on at first. It was only a few weeks after moving to the US that, one night as my husband and I were about to fall asleep, one … [Read more…]
When you go to another country, you need to fully experience the culture, sights, sounds, smells…..yes. Smells. I really wanted to find of what skunk smelled like before I left the US. Much to the surprise of my American friends who assured me that no, I did not want to experience that, and also, what … [Read more…]
Enjoying Vegas When You’re Too lazy to Party. I’ve never been a party girl. I could always pretend that it’s because I was somehow above those kind of amusements, too cool etc. In reality though, it was more a case of not having the energy for it. Even at the age where I really should … [Read more…]
I saw him shortly after arriving at the park. Disheveled and dirty, standing next to his rusted truck in the parking lot, smoking a cigarette and……just watching the children in the distance who had finished baseball practice and were now milling around with their parents. He just looked…..wrong. Like he didn’t belong there. What could … [Read more…]