…but then I moved to London, and in truth, I never thought so much about the sun until I got here.
What even is Hygge?
The Stockholm I’ve come to know is bitterly cold and dusty grey. It’s the chill you get sitting too close to the door at Fabrique bakery..
Wuthering Heights lied about the moors..
There’s only one rule to living in the UK..
Quintessentially British
Some British things don’t make sense across the pond. By sheer luck this week, I discovered that I won’t be able to bring Christmas Crackers to the US for the holidays. L and I were talking about Christmas plans and…
Autumn in London, double-decker busses, and other things that leave a pit in the bottom of my stomach
The greatest roller coaster you can experience in England is that feeling you get walking down the stairs of a moving double-checker bus. It’s a full-body experience. The driver is forging on, as if the secret to life, universe, and…
Shanghai, the sequel.
It’s a testament to how many foreigners must have left over the last year that both of my cab drivers yesterday were of the talkative variety..
London Summers
Something about the summer heat turns polite British people into monsters.
Resources for Writing
It’s difficult. It’s so difficult to build tension, to make people you’ve made up on a page sound like human beings, to make readers root for or against someone.
The Didi that didn’t stop on Yongjia rd..
There’s this moment I think about a lot. I’m in a cab, going down Yongjia Road, crossing the Shanghai Culture Square and Maoming South Road. I’m on the way to J+S. And then I start sobbing. I’m leaving China in…
On January..
Now, one of the things I don’t love about London is that getting anywhere, absolutely anywhere, takes an hour. It’s great for getting through your Kindle read. It’s not great when you’re in Wimbledon at 11:45 on a Saturday night and facing a 1+ hour commute home.