Month: January 2006
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Love Letters
Antique French Love Letters, inked on paper with a quill, tender thoughts from a man to his woman, his heart expressed like many unfolded pages, in perfect script dated 1769, before any of our hearts had such pleasure of being…
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Brocante in France
The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by side. Besides looking for antiques one has to be careful…
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Living with a Frenchman
Yann and I went hiking in the calanques, (the rough coast line between Cassis and Marseille,) our starting point a charming obscure little port called, Morgiou. Yann told me to bring a book, he said, "I’m going to rope down…
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Living with a French man
My idea of exercise is vacuuming the house. My idea of sport is dancing. Yann’s idea of exercise and sport is anything that involves high risk and the sensation of fear. My idea of a lovely Sunday is going to…
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Being Thankful
Most things take time. Which is easily forgotten- with cell phones, computers, internet, google, Amazon, transportation- Life seems to be at our fingertips. Whatever we want when we want it- click, snap, instant credit- Such daily life routines, which used…
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Dancing Together
Yann and I met dancing in San Francisco. … We haven’t stopped. … My parents jitterbug, my Mother taught me how to dance. Often, while preparing dinner, she would grab one of us kids and hum a tune, jolt us…