• French Feast

    The French love food! Right down to their pieds. They do it right, it is a ritual, in perfect timing with the church bells. From the white linen, to the…

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  • Her words spoke truth

                             While sitting on the balusters her thoughts had unfolded before her. Word by word, sentence by sentence, a never ending stream.…

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  • Time on her Hands

                                   Chelsea, (my teen-aged daughter,) had already missed one bus to Marseille when the next bus passed her by! Racing…

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  • Song Catcher

                                 Songs of life were swirling above her, it called to her as she walked by…as much as she wanted to…

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  • Singing in French

                                 Growing up bilingual has its advantages, especially when you live in France and take English in school. Sacha and Chelsea…

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  • An act of Kindness

                                                                 In a blue box trimmed with paper lace,  …

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  • French Brocante Markets

                           Antiques stir my imagination! They whisper stories in my ear, when I am at the brocante market the parade of history and…

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  • Following your path

                        When you come to a fork in the road, where what you want is right in front of you, yet what is safe…

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  • Une Bonne Fille

                       Back home, she was considered a good girl, but in Paris, she was considered vraiment bien! When her Mother wrote asking if she…

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  • Carte Postal

                             Ma Chère, The letter begins like many others with a tender greeting. Though the force of the words that followed were…

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