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.
Read moreI moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.
Read moreThirty years ago today Kelley and I met in East Lansing, Michigan. Here’s our story in photos.
Read moreThe 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 moreFrom: Isabelle in the EU The reason I am getting in touch is that I have fallen in love with an American…
Read moreI took the oath yesterday. It was a surprisingly moving ceremony. I’ll blog all about it in a few days. Right now…
Read moreMy immigration story was difficult, stressful, and expensive. Which is the understated English way of saying, Nightmarish, terrifying, and financially crippling. Kelley…
Read moreToday is the 22nd anniversary of the day I moved to the US permanently to live with Kelley. I intend to spend…
Read moreFrom: Pia I have read some of your recent Ask Nicola blog entries which support epublishing. I have become inseparable from my…
Read moreFriend 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 I was watching the Berlin Wall coming down, beginning a five-week process of selling my stuff, saying my goodbyes…
Read moreAn 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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