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Soup on a Cold Day
Homemade vegetable pesto soup. Oh isn't soup the best on a cold day? Especially a freezing day like today. Of course in the summer I will…
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When You Come to Provence
If you come to Provence take time to be, time to let Provence get under your skin and into your heart. Provence is a place to wander aimlessly,…
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Sixty and Counting
Becoming friends with aging. Yes. Accepting it for what it is. Embracing history as a prize. Not thinking ahead, nor behind. Well, that is a goal. Holding the sag,…
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The Incognito Kitchen Man
Standing outside the Cassis Home I waited for the kitchen cabinet maker to arrive he was running late, I rubbed my hands together wishing I had worn gloves.…
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Chapters of Motherhood
Looking across the table Chelsea and Sacha sat talking to Yann. I thought, “They are grown up, they are adults, they are no longer children.” For the first time, I…
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How French Women Don’t Get Fat According to a Song
While having dinner with our friends from the States I asked French Husband to put some music on so he connected his favorite channel and Charlie Brown's theme…
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Sacha’s Italian Friend Elena
If you were to meet a young artist, a portrait painter who lived in Verona, Italy, and if you were into filming… *Elenacarta on instagram
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Happily Stuffed Piglets
Chelsea and Sacha during lunch. Sacha bought a beret at Maison d'Emperuer to take back to Seattle, he said, "I am French so I should show it."…
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Trying to Pretend They are a Rembrandt Painting
Sacha, his childhood friend and like a son Fabrice, his girlfriend Emily, Chelsea and Martin. With Yann as the photo painter trying to be a Rembrandt painting. …
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Feeling the Earth Move Under my Feet
The moment the four of us gathered (Martin comes tomorrow and the baby in June) it was as if not a second had passed, everything seemed familiar, in…
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