Linda Strange
Strange Countries
Browse: Home » holidays
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,…

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…

Fathers, Sheisters, and Other New Yorkers Who Shall Not Remain Blameless

Fathers, Sheisters, and Other New Yorkers Who Shall Not Remain Blameless

June 14, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in USA

A look at the calendar tells me that Father’s Day is here again. Father’s Day these days, other than being…

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…

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…

Holiday Reading

Holiday Reading

November 29, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in USA

As we sit in front of the television watching football and trying to digest our Thanksgiving dinners, or attempt to…

Easter

Easter

April 1, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

These days, we don’t go in much for huge Easter feasts with the relatives anymore. Easter is more of a…

Boat People

Boat People

November 22, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

So, Thanksgiving is once more upon us, the season in which where I work, little lines of boys and girls…

Independence Days

Independence Days

July 4, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Russia, Sweden, USA

Countries really don’t leave each other alone, do they? They are always bothering each other, invading, claiming sovereignty, imposing annoying…

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…

Midsummer in Scandinavia

Midsummer in Scandinavia

June 13, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland

“Make hay while the sun shines.” The phrase always had a lascivious ring to it for me. It suggested someone…

Juneteenth

Juneteenth

June 6, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Germany, USA

Juneteenth is an African-American holiday officially celebrated in 41 states of the United States. It commemorates the final abolition of…

Author

Portrait photo of Linda Strange

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.

Copyright © 2023 Linda Strange

Powered by WordPress and Origin