Month: July 2012
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This is One of my Favorite Post… Can You Tell me What is One of Your Favorite Posts of Mine?
The wet seaweed full of sand. I gathered it up, admiring the texture and subtle colors, remembering as a child how I could hardly stand to look at it, let alone touch it. With seaweed in hand I walked…
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“Today I will be Happier than a Bird with a French Fry”
photo source Shelli Dorfe The gift of simple happiness. Is it that really as simple as that? Choosing happiness, moment by moment, being grateful for something verses waiting to be happy for everything, is a handy survival tool to…
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One More Time… The Stuff of Dreams
French lavender fields before the harvest. Rows and rows, nearly as far as the eye can see. Why is the season so short? July, Valensole. A house in the middle of a lavender field, can you imagine…
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French Bread and Cheese, a Love Story
Photos and text by: Corey Amaro FRENCH BREAD. The endless world of Baguettes…. After twenty some years in France ONE would think I could walk into a bakery and not drool on myself. At the market a woman walked by carrying…
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…And This is When I Smile
When Chelsea is in her element. When Sacha is Superman Lucky. Both are flying high, in Willows, most likely eating homemade blackberry pie hot from my Mother's oven. (Photos from Chelsea and Sacha, while in Mexico.)
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What I Learned at the Brocante Today.
Standing at a table full of brocante wonder, my friend Denise gasped happily, uttering under her breath, "Isn't this the best?" Nodding yes, I walked to the other stand as something caught my eye, French Husband walked to the other…