Welcome, celebratory reader, as this week I fill you in on two important anniversaries which sailed past this week: as of last Wednesday,...

Welcome, rocky reader, as this week I give you a rundown of our second full week here in Colorado. We're now on our way back to...

Welcome, well travelled reader, as this week I give you the low-down on Colorado through our adopted Californian eyes. The first thing...

Welcome, unhurried reader, as this week I introduce you to a new concept of time: Amtrak time. This week we took on an epic rail journey:...

Welcome, domiciled reader, as this week we try to answer once and for all the question of whether we're resident here in the US or not....

Welcome, haematic reader, as this week I highlight some of the obvious differences between how we think about healthcare in the US and...

Welcome, incredulous reader. For much of this week, I had planned to write some entertaining little commentaries on the quite...

Welcome, dunking reader, as this week the focus has mostly been on basketball. Yes, the last 7 days have seen the final few games of the...

Welcome, confused reader, as this week I go about righting the wrongs in your moral compass. What should I be confronted with when...

Welcome, exploratory reader, as I take you on a journey around Palo Alto's Puzzle Hunt. Yes, the City of Palo Alto has been running a...

Welcome, registered reader, as I take you through the fascinating topic of car number plates in the US, or as they like to call them...

Welcome, old-fashioned reader, as this week we delve into how it's not just vocabulary which separates the US from the UK: there's a...

Welcome, spiritual reader, as I take you on a journey through time and space - well, to Stanford actually - to enjoy some recent whacky...

Welcome, well-travelled reader, as this week we venture out of the bubble within a bubble within a bubble which is Palo Alto, Bay Area,...

Welcome, sporting reader, as I describe a couple of contrasting sport(s) experiences here in the US. The last couple of weekends, we've...

Welcome, serial reader, as I give you the second in our occasional series of American fast food reviews. Yes, this time it's the...

Welcome, unhinged reader, as we talk about the symptoms of March Madness. I was first exposed to this illness back in 2005, when on a...

Welcome, choosy reader, as I give you insights into something that's quite simply different here: having options. We've been here in the...

Welcome, well travelled reader, as this week I take you on a trip to what the locals seem to call the "North State". Yes, this weekend...