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Devon is Dry

Devon is Dry

August 28, 2022 · by Linda Strange · in England, USA

The rains came after a week of heat. Finally. Thank God. Prior to their arrival it was baking and Devon,…

Corona in Connecticut, and Italy, and the UK, and California...

Corona in Connecticut, and Italy, and the UK, and California…

March 20, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England, Italy, USA

The Venetians have gotten their city back. Certainly not the way they wanted to get it back, not as the…

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

January 18, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England

Everyone wants to be liked, Americans, I think, more than most people, and English husbands of American wives want their…

Hot, Hot, Hot

Hot, Hot, Hot

August 13, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in England, France, USA

You knew it before you got there, knew it if you’re one of those people who checks weather.com before you…

Wallis, This One's for You

Wallis, This One’s for You

December 2, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in England, USA

Finally, some good news for a change. Amidst the debacle of “tax reform” and what appears to be rampant sexual…

The End of the World

The End of the World

September 26, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Caribbean, England, Mexico, USA

In the nearly twenty years I’ve been teaching in the US public schools, I’ve had quite a few kids walk…

Where We Come From

Where We Come From

June 25, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Hungary, Moravia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, USA

A family history is a collection of stories, stories told and retold and made old not so much by the…

2017: Brace For Impact

2017: Brace For Impact

January 1, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in England, Finland, France, Germany, USA

At the beginning of the Second World War in Europe, there was a period of time, eight months and one…

A Little History

A Little History

July 31, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in England, Germany, USA

They say if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it and this certainly seems to be what’s…

The Long Walk Across Europe

The Long Walk Across Europe

September 29, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in England, Germany, Greece, Syria

In December of 1933, a young man set out from England on a great adventure. His intention was to walk…

November Anniversaries

November Anniversaries

November 11, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in England, Germany, Russia, USA

Americans, who tend to shun both the specific and the historical, are today celebrating Veteran’s Day in one great, glorious…

Savages

Savages

October 19, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in England

On the southwestern edge of the Wiltshire Downs in England, in the valley of the River Kennet, lies the ancient…

Letter from England

Letter from England

August 13, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in England

Normally, when you say you’re writing a letter from somewhere that’s where you are, but our time in England was…

Rise and Fall

Rise and Fall

February 16, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in England

Even I, no nay-sayer of global-warming, have caught myself thinking it. When climatologists repeat their dire prediction that the world’s…

Big Ben in a rainy London

London Calling

July 18, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in England

It’s raining in London. What a surprise. Yes, but it’s been raining for a long time, practically the whole summer…

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All countries are strange, none stranger than your own.

January 2023
I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.
September 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.
July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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