England, Day 4: Westminster Abbey

On our fourth day in London, we were clearly beginning to feel like we weren’t going to have enough time to do everything, because instead of our usual “one main activity per day,” we did three things: Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, and a play.
 
Our day began with a return to Westminster Abbey, and [...]

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England, Day 3

Ooooh, Day 3 was one of my favorite days in England, as it turns out, because Day 3 was Greenwich Day! As I may have mentioned, I have developed something of an intellectual crush on the minds of the Scientific Revolution, and this trip very much indulged my feelings of hero- and history-worship. (Is it [...]

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England, Day 2

On our second day in England, once my mom and I woke up, Mickey introduced us to the fabulously convenient and always entertaining world of London Walks. They have an organized set of walking tours around London (as you might gather from the name), all led by overly knowledgeable guides with amazingly impressive credentials, which [...]

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Azalea Festival

As it turns out, the reason for my family’s impromptu (at least, from my perspective) trip to the beach, was to go to the North Carolina Azalea Festival in Wilmington, NC. My aunt and uncle own a beach house on Topsail Island, which is only about 30 minutes away from Wilmington. They invited my parents, [...]

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Fair Warning

I’ll be at the beach this weekend, so the chronicle of my trip to England will continue Monday. Sorry.

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England, Day 1

Last month, my mother and I took a trip to London. There was no real reason, other than we both have birthdays in March, and friends that live over there. I was trying to reinstate my tradition (started during my first year of college) of being in another country on an odd-year birthday, but I couldn’t [...]

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Ketchup

I suspect I’ll be cross-posting links to things I write on the Buffet to here, so here’s a quick list of posts I’ve written so far, in chronological order:
Religion in the public schools, on the controversy one of my high school history teachers recently caused when he had an anti-Muslim evangelical speaker visit his class.
I [...]

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Self-Introduction Day

I can’t help it. Every time I have to write something like this now, I think of it as a “self-introduction class,” as in, what I had to do 40 times (literally) when I was teaching English in Japan. So forgive me if at any point I lapse into “foreigner English.”
Anyway, hello, my name is Dana, and I [...]

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