United Kingdom

• Differences in our Common Language

  The Irish writer, George Bernard Shaw, once described the UK and the US as “two countries divided by a common language”. I’d disagree with George on this one. I’ve found the differences in our use of language to be a wonderful point of unity and discovery. I’ll always remember my confusion when an American coworker…

• Corgis, Lost Lands, and Ryan Reynolds: A Story about Welsh and the Importance of Language

  A Nation with a Heart We have an old proverb here in Wales, “cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon”. That is, “a nation without a language is a nation without a heart”.  And Wales is a nation that almost lost its language. In 1847, Wales was in a state of social unrest. That unrest had…

• Postcard #3: Cardiff’s Christmas Markets 🎄

  The People I’m still working away at documenting all the postcards I’ve sent in the past year, including this batch of cards I sent to my workplace’s “distributed postcards” group this past January. Working remotely for a global company has a way of showing you how the world is both big and small at the…