Month: August 2024
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The Moving Van is Coming
And that is how it will be from this day forth. The moving van from Paris will arrive tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. to deliver Chelsea’s family’s belongings. Most of their belonging will stay in storage. We managed to clean…
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The Beginning of a New Home
Martin longed for his job to be transferred to Marseille, and his goal was finally achieved this year. Chelsea and Martin started looking for a home in the south of France. I asked them what was on their dream list…
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Correction to Yesterday’s Post
This is Olivia’s yogurt cake. Moist and delicious lemon vanilla. A yogurt cake is easy to make, and fool proof. Ask Olivia how many tastes she had. Gabriel made the second yogurt cake. He packed his flour, added olive oil…
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The Best Well Know Cake in France
My niece Juliette was fourteen when she shared the French’s most treasured secret cake recipe with me. She asked me if I had some yogurt. Looking at her oddly, I wondered if we were making a classic French cake or…
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Paris by Night
A few photos of Paris from over the years, and yet they could be from a hundred years ago, thirty years ago, or from yesterday. Paris’s heartbeat rarely changes except for the clothes people wear, additions to new creations such…
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The Olympic Flame
It is one of the most spectacular creations I have ever seen. It was magnified by its surroundings, evoking Jules Verne’s passage from Around the World in 80 Days, ” …Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real…”…