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How to take portraits of children
This is my niece Ka-Ka, the firecracker. The motorized bunny looks dead next to her. Taking her photo was not an easy task. When taking photographs of children have everything…
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Where are your Wings?
Many many years ago on this day, on the feast day of Saint Francis, I had my first session of Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. (To this day…
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How to use Chocolate Chips when you don’t make Chocolate Chip Cookies
Flour, sugar, brown sugar, butter, eggs, chocolate chips, walnuts, vanilla, pinch of salt and baking powder… The ingredients are usually something like that when making chocolate chip cookies. In France…
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Here and Now
Celebrate the feast of living this moment. Why wait? Serve cake first, compliment others, give your whole heart away. Celebrate the feast of living your life. Each moment is an…
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French Cafe drinking in Blue
When visiting the south of France put your habits and attitudes in your back pocket. Absorb that which is around you with open eyes. Take an entire afternoon at a…
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A French Story of Food and Romance
In France it always starts with food. Which you can buy on any street corner. Buy a French baguette, a hunk of cheese, and a box of Medoc wine and…
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Do you speak French?
When I arrived in France I was thirty years old and did not speak more than three words in French. Some of you have asked me what was that like…
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Dinner with a Paintbrush
When I arrived in France I didn’t speak a word of French. Well, I spoke three words maybe five, humble pie was my constant buddy, observing in silence my new…
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Collected Thoughts
Things we collect. The smallest things. Bits and pieces, from here and there. Things we collect that we attach meaning to, find pretty, or odd, that seem to say something…
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