Stories Collected While Living in France

French la Vie

A Change is Coming

French La Vie

 

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After years literally of saying that I wanted to change my blog's name,

After writing and posting every day since 2005 to this blog of mine,

I am changing the name of my blog Tongue in Cheek.  Though the blog won't change, just the name.

Because I am hopeless how to come up with a name that would represent what my blog is about and dragged my feet trying to figure something out, I asked French Husband what I should do. He said right off the tip of his tongue, "Corey you share what you love, you share your life our lives, your stories about living in France… French La Vie could be the name of your blog, The French Life."

I smiled a mile long, hugged him then online to see if the name was available and it was and I bought the domain.

Soon I will change the address, though my blog will continue coming to you as it has been.

I will fill you in as I set it up.

French La Vie

Stories collected while living in France.

 

(Photo via Mari) 

 

Comments

45 responses to “A Change is Coming”

  1. Mari

    I love this picture so much!!! You are so beautiful

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  2. Beverly

    Love the name…And you look beautiful here in pic!

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  3. Wisps of Words

    Delightful…

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  4. Marilyn

    I love it! Yes, that is a lovely picture of you!

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  5. Susan

    Perfect!

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  6. Diogenes

    Sounds good! Love this photo of you. 😉

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  7. NancyO.

    Perfect new name, great photo of you!

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  8. RebeccaNYC

    PERFECT!!! Aren’t husbands wonderful?

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  9. Star

    What a wonderful name for your online home
    Such a lovely photo of you!

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  10. Jacklynn Lantry

    Love it! Well done Yann:)

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  11. Ann of Avondale

    Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life.”
    Love the new name.

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  12. Alicia

    Lovely!

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  13. Ali

    Perfect, well chosen…
    Ali

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  14. Liane

    Love that picture! Love the new name! Congratulations!

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  15. Pam hall

    So what’s in a name? It’s what’s inside that counts……..and I love it!

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  16. Leslie in Oregon

    I like the idea of renaming your log “The French Life” or “La Vie Française,” but the mixed-language phrase “French La Vie” doesn’t make sense, or at least is awkward, in either language. By that I mean,, if you translate the French words in the phrase into English, using the same word order, the result is “French the Life,” and if you translate the English word in the phrase into French, using the same word order, the result is “Française La Vie”. Someone basically familiar with French and English probably would figure out the meaning of “French La Vie.” But that phrase would always grate on the conversant-in-French/fluent-in-English ear of one person (me), and I doubt that I would be unique in that respect. For what it’s worth, Leslie😉💜

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  17. LeighNZ

    The new name is perfect in every way…..you know what they say, “A change is as good as a holiday”. Corey that 60th portrait of you is stunning; I hope you’re going to enlarge it and have it framed because it really does convey your spirit so well. How did the portrait come about, was it a photo shoot or a moment while out socialising? XX

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  18. Tongue in Cheek

    I hear what you are saying. Though I love that Yann picked this name for my blog, and as he is French and fluent in English I am going to go with his idea. A big touch of love in the faux pas of translation (it is the story of our communication Franglaise!)

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  19. Tongue in Cheek

    Hi Leigh,
    My friend Mari, from Back Home Living in Texas
    invited me to speak at her shop back in 2009,
    we have been friends ever since.
    Mari was in France for the wedding and to fill a container of
    antiques for her shop. On the last day of her trip Mari
    took this photo of me, in our house next door that she was
    staying.

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  20. Angela

    I love the new name! It’s good to change things up every now and then. Great photo of you.

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  21. Candy

    Lovely. Just lovely. Both the new blog name and you.

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  22. Maureen

    I think it is a wonderful new name and I look forward to reading everything that you so generously share!

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  23. Ed in Willows

    Love the new name. I also think that is one of the best pictures of you that you have ever posted. Tu as l’air fantastique.

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  24. Tracy

    I like it.

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  25. Mardog

    Well done! Beautiful photo of you too.

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  26. Molly Murray

    So good!!! Love it!!!

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  27. debra

    Not to worry, Corey. Most people who adore France and all things French, chez moi, will get it simply because they will understand the difference in word order between English and French. Sometimes I have to think twice when speaking! I love it! Love that your husband came up with it! Things that come easily are the sweetest, aren’t they? You are the bomb in that photo:)

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  28. Christine

    Perfect! Congratulations, I know how difficult coming up with a name can be. It suits your blog.
    Xoxo
    Christine

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  29. Sandy

    Love the new name! Fits perfectly! Good job Yann!

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  30. Paula Tyner

    How exciting!

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  31. Judyo

    Wonderful! “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.

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  32. Barbara Blizzard

    Parfait – both the look and the new ideas. Keep on enjoying life and enhancing all of our lives with your words.

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  33. LeighNZ

    How wonderful, Mari has captured essence beautifully….not easy to do.

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  34. LeighNZ

    That’s “Your Essence”

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  35. Bobbie

    Corey….French husband is brilliant! Love the new name!! 👍❤️❤️👏

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  36. becky up a hill

    Fresh start. Fresh name. Happy for you.

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  37. Tina

    Chère corey!
    French La Vie- parfait! love the new name.
    je le sentait, depuis long…… qu´un nouveau chapitre et en coure…
    …et nous rentrons tous dans une nouvelle qualité de temps….*y* – l´incontournable…
    d´ailleurs, tu est ravissante , assise, dans ta jolie chaise française!!
    chaudement
    Tina xx

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  38. Charland

    Perfection!

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  39. TerriNTexas

    Beautiful picture of you!

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  40. Liana Munden

    I love it! I think it is the perfect name!!!!

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  41. Jennifer McCracken

    The new name is great; but we as subscribers are not connecting to a name, we are connecting to you and all you share with us. What ever you call your blog, I will still be here!Great photo Corey!Here’s to many more!

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  42. Kiki

    Have been away, holidaying in my old hunting grounds, Torquay, Devon UK – just realise that you changed your blog’s name. I really, really liked the Tongue in Cheek name; your new name is so similar to dozens of other French Life blogs but as all say, it’s your spirit which counts, not the name… So good luck and thanks for your postings.
    I love that photo of you – it’s stylish, timeless, glorious in b&w, hope Yann gets a copy of it on his nightstand! 😉

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  43. SharonCrigSt

    Le nom est parfait!! Love it…so happy for you – and what a smart French husband Yann is!! I think you should keep him! 😉

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  44. roses madrigale

    I love your blog lived in Paris vicariously through you.
    and I thank you for attending your daughter’s wedding.
    nobody but you.
    I feel like we are old friends..roses

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  45. Jan D-M

    I love this so much and that photo Mari took of you is pure perfection. So pleased that your heart is at peace with the new name. The banner photo is lovely, too, although I do hope to see that photo of Yann and you again from time to time; it always made me smile to see it and I loved the gray tones with the touch of red. It’s so funny, Corey, I was so bummed when you took away the banner with the spoon and die and thought I’d never get used to the new one. Now I know that it matters not because whatever you do, I will love. The new name, grammatically correct or not, emotes the essence of what we will find when we come inside to explore— a worn and woven loveliness in all its surprises. xoxo

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