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Fete des Pères
Memory 1988: Sitting up, he leaned over the couch and said, "Corey?" "Oh Dad!" I was caught off guard, "You surprised me, I didn't know you were here." I picked…
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The Boy Boy Turns Eighteen
(Photos of when Sacha as a little boy.) When Sacha was born he had some health problems. The first five years were difficult. We barely slept. Due to Sacha's health…
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Terms of Endearment: Coco Puff
When the women are from America and men are from France, wait isn't there a book with a title like that… how does it go? Venus and Mars isn't…
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French Antique Candy Boxes and other sweet things
Photos of antique candy boxes by Corey Amaro. A French nineteen century fabric covered candy box. A blue grey paper candy box with gold lettering. Chocolate covered chestnuts from Ardeche……
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Match Making, or How a Volcano can make a Hot Apple Pie…Match Maker’s Tale One Year Later
Photographs and text by Corey Amaro Match Making: Two willing souls who did not know they wanted to be together. One Match Maker: Who was not thinking about matchmaking. Came…
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Giving a New Chapter to Old Things
Photo and Text by Corey Amaro A pair of doll house candlesticks, on an old handwritten letter, surrounded by a frame with flowers on the corners. Little things found at…
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The Purse Hanger and a Portrait of a Ding Dong
Photo and text by Corey Amaro Today I was to pick a winner for the purse hanger thingy. This morning I searched all over my house trying to find the…
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Where to Hang Your Purse
Dang, if I cannot find the comment (that one of you left) asking me, "Where do the French women place their purses when out to dinner?" My friend Charlotte answered…
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Daredevil Poetry in Motion
I sat my baby on the living room stool, in the lace baptismal gown, that my Belle Mere told me her children wore. I believed her, though I haven't seen…
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How to Make Burnt Cherry Jam
Yesterday, my friend Arnelle and I picked cherries as I started to make the jam I remembered a post I wrote about making cherry jam years ago, 12 years ago…
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