Girls on the Run: Empowering program raises self-esteem and builds confidence
When I heard about Kathy Barnett and the work she does with young girls, it occurred to me just how
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Claire Bolden McGill is a British expat who lived in Maryland for three years and moved back to the UK in August 2015. Claire wrote about her life as a British expat on the East Coast and now works in travel and hospitality PR in the UK. She still finds time to blog about her repatriation and the reverse culture shock that ensued – and she still hasn’t finished that novel, but she’s working on it. You can contact Claire via twitter on @clairebmcgill or via her blog From America to England.
Author: Claire Bolden
Ban your children from soda
HoCo Unsweetened At the pools in Columbia, Maryland this summer a bunch of people were speaking my language. Not British
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Nutrition course complete Yeah, I can now officially create diet plans and give nutritional advice and help people with weight management
Read moreGetting fit, bit by bit
Aqua Fitness When I said I was training in Aqua Fitness someone I know snorted. ‘The lowest form of exercise,’
Read moreGet a body like Jennifer or J-Lo……yawn.
Celebrity body anyone? I read a lot of fitness and nutrition magazines and in nearly every one there is an
Read moreIrony: Is it just a UK thing?
The Almost Drug Deal and How I Discovered Irony Doesn’t Always Go Down Well With An American Audience So here’s
Read moreFitty or Fatty?
So along with the fitness regime, as is drummed into us, goes the food regime for all round goodness and
Read moreInterpreting the Confederate flag as a Brit
On my journeys, so far, I have not crossed paths much with the Confederate flag. My young, ignorant British viewings
Read moreDaisy Dukes at a PTA meeting? This ain’t Harper Valley!
In retrospect I was dressed in not a dissimilar fashion from Reese Witherspoon’s character in Mud (which has a touch
Read moreHands off Gibraltar, Spain!
It’s a rock in the Mediterranean, that we know. It has monkeys and a cable car and some caves. It
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