A closer look at the details in “Giver of Stars” ✨🏡🌳 That little cottage is the North Lodge at the entrance of the University Parks in Oxford and I’d pass it every day, multiple times, as I’d cycle past. Years later, I...
In Oxford, England – a place I once called my home – on the corner of Ship and Cornmarket Streets, there exists a lovely row of buildings that haven’t changed since the Tudor era. They lean ever-so-slightly over the street below, and every time I walked or...
For some reason, each time I return to England, it is sunny. Days and days of sunshine. Entire weeks of nothing but sun and breeze and glorious weather that is so very un-English it surprises me every time. When I lived here, however, that never seemed to be the case....
The Radcliffe Camera. For those of us that have toiled away up there, over countless stacks of countless books, we affectionately call it the “Rad Cam.” And by “affectionately,” I mean, “with equal parts loathing and not-so-fond remembrance of exhaustion.”...
April 2011, outside the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford Danny: “What’s with all the bikes?” Me: “It’s the only way to really get around the city when you live and study here.” Danny: “What do you do when it rains?” Me:...