“Where are you from?” is a query that I, as a person of unremarkable accent and generic last name, encounter fairly often. Over the years, my responses have differed, depending on who is asking the question, and where I am being asked it, as I zoom out or pan in on the Google Map of my life in an effort to offer the appropriate level of detail. When I lived in North Carolina, the answer was “Wilmington,” the beach town (you may know it as Capeside, Massachusetts) in the southeastern corner of the state where I was born and raised. When I moved to New York, the answer became “North Carolina.” For the past two years, I’ve lived in London, where I just say “The ... Continue reading →

Also Sid's science teacher looks like she's used a lot of that science on her face. http://t.co/Iv4S2MfC Continue reading →