Month: October 2007
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Trumpet Song Early in the Morning
My Mother and Aunt Marie use to go to the antique auctions when I was little. After dinner dishes done, my Mom would race off with a smile, and high hopes written all over…
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Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder
It wasn’t a real cameo. It wasn’t lace made from the nuns in some faraway place. The book wasn’t leather bond, in fact pages were missing. The pearls…fake and the diamonds rhinestones. It was just…
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Mums and Pumpkins
The differences between France and America are subtle. Take Mums and pumpkins for example. Mums a fall flower arrives in force in October. They spill out from the French floral shops…
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Endive Roquefort Tart and Chestnut Soup
Photo: Breakfast dishes. My Mother knows in the morning what she is going to make for dinner. At seven a.m., list in hand she is at the grocery store…
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An Apple a Day
Photo: At the French Market. As a child I was a picky eater. I could count the things I liked to eat on two hands. White bread, peanut butter but not crunchy, hamburgers plain,…
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Whatcha gonna say about that?
Photo: My nieces and nephews bus ride home from the first day of school in California. Chelsea came home from university (Prepa) this weekend and the first thing she said was, "Mom, in my…