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Growing up in New York with an English father and American mother, I was always curious about living abroad. After work experience at Fleet Street Publications and classes in London a few years earlier, I had fallen in love with the city. In 2007, I moved

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Remembering my grandpa: 3 of 43
My aunt draped her arm across my shoulder and wiped my tears with her thumb. "You know," she said to me, "tears are the greatest expression of love you could show for him. It's okay to cry."Standing in the hospital hallway less than a minute after my grandpa took his last rasping breath from his white bed, I knew he had waite... More..
Arts & Humanities > Buying & Selling Art How to sell original paintings: 1 of 7
When I came to London a year ago, I didn't have a job, but I did have a marketing degree and a lot of bills to pay. So, when I was offered a job marketing art in a gallery, I couldn't turn it down. For the next year, I learned a lot about how to market and sell paintings for thousands of s.Art, original and expensive art, is ... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Society & Lifestyle (Other) The perfect world: 6 of 40
Impossibly in reality; embraced by imagination.It is impossible partly because the idea of a "perfect world" in itself is entirely subjective. My perfect world, more likely than not, varies in one aspect or another from yours.There are eight main ingredients I would mix together to create a "perfect world" that would serve bi... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Hunger, Disease & Poverty Why we should treat the homeless with compassion: 3 of 19
Every day, we pass people with nowhere to call home. Some of us notice them, others pay no attention, but they are part of our world and their colourful stories are brush strokes on the portrait of our city.About six years ago, painter Jacqueline K Crofton sat in Camden's soup kitchen in London on a gray day eating lunch with... More..
Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals How to avoid the quarter-life crisis: 2 of 12
As a kid, I was a bit disillusioned about life at 25.My friends and I would sit on the tire swing at recess and spin ourselves dizzy and chatted about our expectations. Clearly, by 25, I'd have moved from New York to California, be married to a gorgeous man, have one child and be working as a successful psychologist with my P... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Your definition of happiness: 27 of 159
Thumbing through the first few pages of The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, (the book itself about a man trying to find happiness through the boredom of a perfect life) I lingered on a quote from the late American actor Burt Lancaster."Why do our fingers to the grain of wood, the cold of steel, the heat of the sun, the flesh of w... More..
Education > Distance Learning Distance education: Tips for success: 4 of 21
As a Distance Learning Coordinator at a college in London, I support about 160 students from all around the world on their courses. Students can definitely succeed in this type of educational situation, but it doesn't come without effort. The students who do succeed are self-motivated, ambitious, dedicated and most importantl... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles Should people have sex before marriage?: 21 of 106
To be honest, this topic shouldn't even really be up for debate because it isn't a debate. No one has the right to say a couple "should" or "shouldn't" have sex before marriage. You can say it's against your values or against your religion, but that doesn't make it wrong for everyone.I joined the "yes" side only because I'm n... More..
Travel > Europe Travel experiences: Walking around London: 1 of 5
Regent Street pavement was clogged with the usual onslaught of weekend tourists and late night shoppers. I was walking quickly back from Borders toward the tube, head down, weaving between couples and groups and bags and beggars.Then I overheard a woman say, "This city is unreal, it's beautiful" and she trailed off there. I s... More..
Hobbies & Games > Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts Scrapbooking supplies: Great tools to make your project unique: 10 of 49
Scrapbooking is like creating a personal magazine with textures and glue and personal memories. (It is also extremely addicting, although, if you're reading this article, I'm sure you probably are well aware.)Here are a few of my favorite tips to make scrapbooks you will want to page through years down the line, and show to g... More..