Month: November 2013
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Saturday Art Saves: Terrain Vallonne
Photo via Terrain Vallonne Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on…
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Is It Humanly Possible, Eight Years? Does it Mean I am Nuts?
A personal blog: A person who writes their journal online. Open to anyone who "clicks" on it. Their B(ook)-LOG has pages called, "Posts," about their personal day to day life stuff: I am married. I like tofu. I am a spiritual person. I…
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The Feast of Giving Thanks
In the church in the town I grew up in are stain glass windows that were brought over from the old church before it was tore down. They are beautiful. I spent many a Sundays as a child…
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On The Eve of Thanksgiving: How do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Three Words
(2007 Thanksgiving Conversation) Thanksgiving, like the fourth of July, and Halloween are not a French thing. Sacha is sad. Thanksgiving without a turkey is like Christmas without a Charley Brown Christmas Tree, or Halloween without a pumpkin. We are…
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Bringing up Bebe
On the ground, at the brocante, laid an old handwritten music book with a cut-out white heart attached to the front cover. Thumbing through the pages I stumbled upon a song called, "Les Anges de la France. The angels…
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French Family Pancakes Chez Nous
Chelsea and Sacha were home for the weekend. The kitchen was the stage. Food rolled out like it had when they lived at home. It came as a surprise to me, though I don't know why, it isn't like I…