Month: May 2007
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A Mother’s Love
My Mother’s kitchen table. My Mother is a nuts and bolts kind of woman. Practical with no frills. Dust rag in one hand, and a plate of cookies in the other. Being busy doing is her best friend. The word…
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The Gift of Gentleness
Actions speak louder than words… being by someone’s side, as they untie the knots that have gathered, can be what is needed most. Like a gentle hand on a shoulder. photo: Antique medallion on a pink ribbon. May you be…
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The Miracle of Annie
My eighty-eight year old friend Annie, went to Lourdes with me. She is a trooper who goes with the flow. She is well-organized…even down to the toothpick she packed in our…
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Flashback of France 1988
After months of living in a cute cracker-box studio in Paris, French husband and I found a large, bourgeois-style apartment by the Bastille. Since the rent was tres cher…
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Back Home
The details of daily life are asking me to dance to the tune of rock and roll. The stack of laundry waves at me, while emails, comments and messages shout out my name.…
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Eighth of May, Victory Day
France celebrates the end of World War II on the 8th of May. Thirteen years ago, when we first arrived in the French village that we now live in, an elderly woman came to our door. She introduced herself as…