• Dream on Diamond

    My birth-day will be in a few weeks. Every year my husband and children ask me what I would like…each year I say the same thing… A House! A Car!…

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  • Love Letters

    Antique French Love Letters, inked on paper with a quill, tender thoughts from a man to his woman, his heart expressed like many unfolded pages, in perfect script dated 1769,…

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  • Brocante in France

    The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by…

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  • Living with a Frenchman

    Yann and I went hiking in the calanques, (the rough coast line between Cassis and Marseille,) our starting point a charming obscure little port called, Morgiou. Yann told me to…

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  • Living with a French man

    My idea of exercise is vacuuming the house. My idea of sport is dancing. Yann’s idea of exercise and sport is anything that involves high risk and the sensation of…

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  • Being Thankful

      Most things take time. Which is easily forgotten- with cell phones, computers, internet, google, Amazon, transportation- Life seems to be at our fingertips. Whatever we want when we want it-…

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  • Dancing Together

    Yann and I met dancing in San Francisco. … We haven’t stopped. … My parents jitterbug, my Mother taught me how to dance. Often, while preparing dinner, she would grab…

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  • Growing up French

      Living in France is different than living in California. My experiences of growing up in Willows, a small rural community in Northern California, are far different from my children’s…

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  • Details of French antiques

    Gold thread tassels hang on a painted blue armoire 19th century French armoire.

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  • French Antique

    King of France, Prince de la Chicken Coop or just another pretty face? Who is this man? As I promised yesterday, here is Mademoiselle de la Chicken Coop’s, partner. His…

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