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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,…

My Cousin in California

My Cousin in California

December 2, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, USA

On November 9th, two weeks after my cousin in Pittsburgh, in her post-shooting gloom, bowed out of all social media,…

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…

The Future is Now

The Future is Now

April 26, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in Mexico, Syria, USA

If you’d asked me a few years ago, only a few, whether or not I ever read dystopian fiction, I…

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…

Spread the Word

Spread the Word

April 22, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Italy

Venice is a city of illusions: illusions of water and light, of time and space, of stillness and movement. Looking…

Venice

Venice

May 1, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Italy

Imagine a city where the taxi journey from the airport so satisfies your desire for adventure, your longing for beauty,…

Lists

Lists

December 31, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in France, Germany, Syria, USA

As another year draws to its close and the next one edges near, there seems to be in both the…

The Tattered Hem of Winter

The Tattered Hem of Winter

March 17, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in Russia, USA

For me, there are three kinds of winters. The first kind is the rainy, gray, damp, but relatively mild winter…

Westward Ho!

Westward Ho!

May 27, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in USA

Keeping on the travel theme, my husband and I had reason to strike out for California last weekend, and if…

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…

Snow Days

Snow Days

February 13, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

Remember just two blogs ago, I exhorted all of you to embrace the much maligned winter season? Well, I can…

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

January 29, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

All right, it’s been pretty cold lately and at the moment it’s raining ice onto my roof.  Everyone has been…

Shorefront Anyone?

Shorefront Anyone?

November 6, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

When I was an undergraduate at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, there was a lecturer there by…

Spanish Flames

Spanish Flames

September 5, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Spain

As if they needed anything else to go wrong, the country of Spain has this last week been battling yet…

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…

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice

June 27, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Sweden, USA

What do you mean the summer’s over? Why it just started didn’t it? I only got out of school last…

Fascinators Forever

Fascinators Forever

May 16, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

I’m going to a wedding in England this summer and I’m pretty pleased about it. Of course, I’ll be happy…

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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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