Month: April 2025
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Sharing the Brocante Experience with You
Here we go again—another week of antiquing adventures and soaking up France one brocante at a time, this time in collaboration with Red Shed Tours. While The French la Vie journeys officially kick off in May, I’ve teamed up with Red Shed…
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Let’s Go Antiquing
Where I have connected to wonder-filled friends, and have been invited to take you who have joined me on a French la Vie to visit, and experience what I have come to know and love. Let’s go antiquing. You know,…
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A Few Things I Saw at the Brocante
You never know what you’ll find or what might spark your curiosity. What did I buy? Strangely, with 800 dealers, not much. I was looking for certain items but didn’t find them. And worse, the few things I wanted were…
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Easter Monday is a Holiday in France
In France, there’s no Easter Bunny. Instead, there’s a story I love—one that still feels wrapped in a bit of mystery and childhood wonder. On Good Friday, the church bells across France fall silent. The story goes that they’ve flown…
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Easter Morning
The tomb is empty. And that changes everything. Light over darkness. We can breathe — away from fear, from indifference, from the noise of the world — and into the stillness where love sings. It isn’t about perfection or knowing…
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The Feast of Light
There is a hush I feel inside lately. A silence that doesn’t come from peace, but from absence.Something is missing.Something soft. Maybe it is love.Maybe we’ve placed it on a shelf,dusted it with words,called it sentimental.Old-fashioned.Inconvenient. Tomorrow is a kind…