Category: Living in France
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The French Muse Touring a Chateau of my Dreams
Friends of mine have cared for a chateau that has been left to decay in graceful surrender. A tragedy beyond belief. Today the French Muse went inside, as my friends are retiring and selling their collected cherished pieces. The chateau…
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Antique Shopping in France with the French Muse
When sharing something I love and having it received with gratitude and appreciation, then the giving flows like the River Sorgue, abundantly with ease, rushing on one shore to another until one becomes the other. Ruth and I went…
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Ephemera
French Ephemera. I have a thing for it. Crazy truth. Whenever I see old French paper I have to stop to check it out. Name cards, invitations, announcements… Bits of a history of a…
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French La Vie: An Old Silk Stocking Factory… Turned into a Private Antique Textile Warehouse
Imagine driving to an obscure Provencal village where only a handful of people live, to go to an old silk stocking factory turned into a warehouse FULL of antique textiles. Having a friend comes in handy,…
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A Weekend with Friends: What do you Love? All Good Things
There are so many things that I love about being in France that I will simply begin by saying zinc top bars. Not that I am a big drinker, but I cannot get enough of the bar atmosphere, the…
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Name One of Your Favorite Dinner Moments
Last night a few friends gathered at our home for dinner: Philippe our friend who makes paella, dances salsa and teases me ruthlessly about how my dishes are not as old as I say they are, and…