Love and isolation: 31 years ago
I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.
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30 years ago: a love story in photos
Thirty years ago today Kelley and I met in East Lansing, Michigan. Here’s our story in photos.
Read moreBrexit-related death and decline: a rant
The day after the UK voted to leave the European Union I posted my opinion to the effect that many people would die as a direct result. I have not changed my mind. In fact, after the events of this week, I’m more certain than ever.
Read more38% of English ancestry derived from Anglo-Saxon migration
Immigration and same-sex couples
From: Isabelle in the EU The reason I am getting in touch is that I have fallen in love with an American…
Read moreI am now an American citizen
I took the oath yesterday. It was a surprisingly moving ceremony. I’ll blog all about it in a few days. Right now…
Read moreA step forward: same-sex couples are ‘family’ for immigration purposes
My immigration story was difficult, stressful, and expensive. Which is the understated English way of saying, Nightmarish, terrifying, and financially crippling. Kelley…
Read moreAnniversary
Today is the 22nd anniversary of the day I moved to the US permanently to live with Kelley. I intend to spend…
Read moreMaintaining my interesting status
From: Pia I have read some of your recent Ask Nicola blog entries which support epublishing. I have become inseparable from my…
Read moreI arrive in the US–a cartoon
Friend of Ask Nicola Angélique Corthals drew this cartoon of me arriving for the first time in this country (in 1988) to…
Read moretwenty years ago
Twenty years ago I was watching the Berlin Wall coming down, beginning a five-week process of selling my stuff, saying my goodbyes…
Read moreVirgin birth (yes, really)
An AP report about a blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, giving birth to a shark pup by parthenogenesis (or, as the Wall Street…
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