Monthly Archives: November 2009

advanced bunburrying

this blog is going back into hibernation.  i may be one of the most advanced bunburryists you know, but things aren’t as fun as they once were.
i’ll post once or twice more when an archive is properly developed and a new corner is found that i might speak from.

war

When i was growing up in the 1980s and 90s, i thought we commemorated all the dead on Remembrance day. Not just allied soldiers who died, but the enemy soldiers, too. Most important of all, i thought we stood in silence to remember the innocent people who got in the way.
I believed [...]

My country tis of thee?

I’m not American.  I have American cousins and American friends; my in-laws also live in the States.  One of my closest friends carries an American passport, as does his child. My life is saturated with American culture. But, I’m not American.
Sometimes I feel like have a maligned insider/outsider view of the USA, though.  I’ve lived [...]