Category Archives: England
by Helen Groothuis | Nov 30, 2018
If you had told thirteen-year-old Helen that in ten years she would be living in England, let alone London, I think she might have fainted in disbelief.
by Gabe Gunnink | May 20, 2018
Never before in my life have I been physically stopped in my tracks by the scent of flowers. Never until I moved to Seattle.
by Gabe Gunnink | Nov 20, 2017
And I realized these are the first things: not medals or adventures, but the cinch of laces around a foot and reliable slide of mud and bitter perfume of sweat rising like smoke off shoulders.
by Abby Zwart | Apr 12, 2017
I know which cashier is the fastest, which one is the nicest, and which one packs my reusable grocery bags like her own personal Tetris championship.
by Matt Medendorp | Mar 22, 2017
We’re nodding our heads, ready to keep walking, and then he opens his mouth to sing.
by Geneva Langeland | Jun 17, 2016
Dear Reader, I’m writing to you from my bathrobe. In a window seat. In a castle. In England.
by Andrew Knot | Aug 16, 2015
My colleagues included an Australian, an Austrian, an Irishman, and a Scot. Each time we walked into a pub, the room buzzed like the beginning of the world’s most-told joke.
by Bart Tocci | Jan 9, 2015
I was in an honors history class during my junior year of high school. (Did he say…honors??? You bet I did, impressed reader, and I escaped with a C+.)
by Andrew Orlebeke | Sep 21, 2014
I was always driven by the idea of the adventure and seeing new and unique places—after all, Carmen Sandiego wasn’t going to find herself—and sought out all opportunities I could find.
by Andrew Steiner | Mar 4, 2014
In that crystalline moment, I knew that I had discovered something totally new. I glimpsed landscapes. I couldn’t speak.
