Month: February 2014
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52 and 50 Oh Brothers!
Dear Brother Mat and Brother Mark, Happy birthday! Mark welcome to the other side of the mountain. Mat I bet your smiling? I wish I could be there to have a drink with you two in the barn. Dang! Wow…
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French Husband Takes it Off
He said he wanted to take it all off. I prefer his hair long. He said he wanted to shave it. I told him if he shaved it I would hate it. Period. A compromise. Oh God.…
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Faithful and True
We have lived for nearly twenty-some years in the countryside outside of Marseille. Before that, we lived in Marseille and Paris. Our oldest friends, or my oldest friends in France, live in Marseille. We met over twenty…
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Remember Me as Lemon
The church in our village is halfway between my home and Annie's. I pass by it often each time I do I think of my father I took a photo of him by the fountain. Funny how certain things…
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Chelsea on the Steps
This morning before heading back to Paris, Chelsea was sitting on the steps. Rubbing my eyes I saw my daughter as she is a woman. Tears swallowed. Echoing in my mind words often said by parents, "Where did the…
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Dancing with Love in Her Heart
Dancing in the kitchen again. It is something we do. As children my mom dance with us in kitchen. That is were I learned to jitterbug, do dishes and of course cook. On another note: In France one rarely…