Category: London
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Sparkie on the Tube
May 25th, 2009 Not only is Sparkie a world traveller now, she navigates the London Underground and National Rail like any other jaded Londoner. Walking onto the train, it is obvious which people like dogs and which do not—an instant divide.
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Send Grits
January 30th, 2009 (And Duke’s Mayo, Maker’s Mark and Smucker’s Organic Peanut Butter) As someone involved in visual communications who has done her fair share of corporate identity projects, the word “branding” most often makes me cringe. People misuse it and most often you hear it from clients who have no idea what they are…
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Like Being Rich
January 12th, 2009 When I first began my quest for grad school, a friend told me “Going back to school as an adult is like being rich.” I’m not sure I totally understood what she meant. But last week I got a taste. The State-owned museums here in London have no admissions fees. So I…
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Barking with a British Accent
Originally published: January 3rd, 2009 Written on New Year’s Day Sparkie and I have arrived in London. Our last few days in Atlanta were a rush of activity. When I found it was going to be cost prohibitive to ship many of my things, I scrambled to re-pack. Kristin Ruby threw a fantastic going away…
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Search for an apartment and apparently, intelligent life as well.
Originall published: November 23rd, 2008 Last year I found a cute little garden place in London. It was about seven blocks from my friend Sophie’s house so we snapped it up. Then, well, the difficulties interfered and I didn’t go. So, once again, I have been scrolling through Craig’s List looking at all apartments sorted…