My Wandering Days

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The author mostly blogs about being an American in Oxford, but also blogs about things like food, love, bicycles, fashion, and books, so it's a bit of a mixed bag, really.

Latest Blog Posts

  • Big News! on Nov 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

    This blog has moved.  I’ve got a real website.  With, like, my own domain name and everything! So take note and update your brains: this blog is now officially (and only) at www.aliteralgirl.com.  Thanks! –Miranda...

  • Everything is Impossible. Anything is Possible.* on Nov 19, 2009 in Uncategorized

    This is exactly how I feel right now.  I don’t mean right now in this moment; I mean right now in general.  I mean this sums up the sense that I have constantly.  I’m both scuppered and free.  At any instant I may hit a brick wall or...

  • Note to Self… on Nov 18, 2009 in Writing

    …write without fear.  ...

  • I’m a Cool Girl Now on Nov 18, 2009 in Books City Oxford

    Not often, but sometimes, it occurs to me that I am very, incredibly, out of touch with the rest of the world.  It has always been thus, but living in Oxford makes it easy to forget that once I was a geeky Converse-clad girl with a bad hairdo. (I am...

  • The Art of a Good To-Do List on Nov 18, 2009 in Anxiety Lists

    I’m a fan of the to-do list.  A big fan.  Partly I like making lists because they give me something to do during the day that is about work but not actually work, if you see what I mean.  I can just about get away with making endless lists o...

  • Hide & Seek on Nov 14, 2009 in Writing

    And then there was the time we hid under my parent’s bed so that she wouldn’t have to go home.  I don’t know why I remember this now, particularly.  There are children playing hide-and-seek in the house (not our children, not our...

  • Flashback on Nov 9, 2009 in Memes Travel

    Last week, the lovely Academic, Hopeful tagged me in a meme-type post about folders and photos.  An easy diversion, a good way to kick-start the blog again.  Pick the 10th photo of your first folder of photos and post it.  So here’s Greece,...