• Angel’s Wings

      After two amazing weeks at home in California, I am going home to France. It is bittersweet. It is too short, not enough, and yet I am grateful: That…

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  • Six Years of Blogging

    Today marks the sixth year of my blog. Everyday for six years. Over 6000 photos. Brocante bug galore. A range of emotion, a scrapbook of my life, a sweet collection…

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  • Where the Willows Grow

      There are fourteen nieces and nephews in my Amaro side of the family. Seven older ones, and seven little ones. As I was a mother of two of them…

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  • Marty, Mathew, Mark and Zane

        My brother’s names remind me of the four gospels.. well almost. Marty, Mathew, Mark and Zane. Marty’s middle name is John. And Zane’s middle name is Louis which…

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  • Happy Places

        Looking out from the kitchen window, Westport, California. Symbols in unexpected places.           Secret passages, Dark gardens, Trails through the headlands on the Northern…

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  • Westport, California

    Where do you leave your heart?           The song says that someone left their heart in San Francisco. Some would think my heart is at the…

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  • Gatherings for the Holidays

        Before Thanksgiving my mother and her business partner Holly closed their shop to prepare for Black Friday. As I have lived in France for a few thousand years,…

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  • Thanksgiving Confession

      (Friday Fille: My new metallic shoes standing on the lane covered with Autumn leaves. Which has nothing to do with today's post.) Thanksgiving Confession…. Not only was the Turkey…

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  • Thanksgiving

        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…

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  • In the Kitchen with my Mom

      In the kitchen with my mom means homemade food, one delicious delight after another. The grandchildren know that Monday mornings mean waffles with warm maple syrup. As many as…

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