Tag: england
member name: Frank Z.
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December 04, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
St. Thomas is getting ready for the holiday season. It's a funny thing to see in some ways, Christmas lights and decorations on boats in their slips, or at anchor, or even strung up on . . . more
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June 22, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
Is that fog? I wonder when I lift my head from sleep this morning and look out the gloomy window that is normally bright with vibrant sun. Nah, can't be. There’s no fog in the Caribbean.
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June 27, 2007 08:33 AM EDT --
When our train pulls into Victoria Station, it's late afternoon, raining very hard. We’re drenched getting into a taxi to take us to the docks. I look out the rain-spotted windows where an old . . . more
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July 22, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
It's early in the morning and quiet here in England. I'm up alone, walking downstairs to the living room to begin this first post abroad. My internal clock seems to take longer than . . . more
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June 18, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
Gawd! It was exciting: packing the collected essentials of our years together and shipping them in a container to St. Thomas; selling off the rest of our life in a garage sale; stuffing the Jeep . . . more
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July 14, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Mary and I made a few friends at Lou's Motor Court. Even at five years old, though, I knew it was the kind of place you stayed in for a short time because you had nowhere else to go. We were . . . more
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July 19, 2007 05:37 AM EDT --
There was a coolness in the room, not just a temperature drop, something else. I was already an indoctrinated Catholic and knew how to be frightened of the spirits and emissaries of the devil wherever . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
The sun comes up over my deck on the east side of the island. It comes up fast here in the Caribbean, close to the equator. It sets just as fast. . . . more
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July 27, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
References to Noah are everywhere in soggy England this week. His visage flashes on BBC News, his big old Arc is referenced repeatedly by the flooded public who wishes it had tickets to his mystery . . . more
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July 25, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
Lincoln's High Street has gotten so busy is seems like a thoroughfare of London. From Castle Square and Cathedral Centre high on the hill down to the train station at the bottom, the noisy crowds . . . more
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November 03, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
"Not caw , but carrrr ," she says sweetly, just a tad perturbed by my fourth or fifth mispronunciation.
"Now try saying home once more, but this time concentrate on the big, hard . . . more
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July 05, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
When was the last time you shopped at K-Mart? I don’t mean to pick up a prescription or buy some breath mints on your way out to a Friday night. I mean to do the comprehensive family shopping from . . . more
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