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Over to the Other Side…Going Home
Back to California, I would have never believed that I would have lived longer in France, than I ever lived in the States—which still feels odd, even now. But California…
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The French Baguette
In France, it’s not a baguette.It’s the baguette.Sacred. Daily. Ritual.Crunch. A baguette isn’t bought.It’s chosen.Some like them bien cuite—dark, crusty.Others say pas trop cuite—soft shell, pale.The baker nods.They know. And yes.The first thing you…
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Despite Reason They Bloomed
Yesterday on my walk —the kind I take to loosen the corners of thought —I found a clutch of wildflowers, dry as bone,but bright —bright as if they’d never known…
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A One of a Kind Journey in Provence
Come see Provence, those villages that are worth a thousand photos, where cobblestones make you wish you had worn walking shoes, and shutters of blues that you want to take…
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French Guessing Game
You know how I love a good French guessing game. Well— when I was out and about with the latest group- Nicole and her mother Judi stumbled upon something that had me stumped.…
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The 4th
Somewhere between the anthem and the silence, I wonder: is liberty still ringing, or is that the echo of something we forgot to hold for all? America, the beautiful- be…
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Cassis Morning
Sunshine spills—Azur sky, parasol pines,waving to the waves. Woke up to seagulls singing,sea masts clicking—rhythmic lullaby.The port of Cassis stretching, yawning,beginning again. A hum, a glide, a splash! Barefoot thoughts…
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Between the Pages: The Scrapbook
We have always had a way of honoring the little things. That tiny chocolate paper? It could be part of a schoolchild’s collection, a young girl’s diary, or a grandmother’s…
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A Blistering Summer in Provence
It’s a place not touched by time. A piece of childhood still stitched into the now. A kind of freedom most don’t even know how to name. And here it…
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