Category: Living in France
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Saturday Art Saves: Mona Lisa by Evelyn Jackson
The Mona Lisa addiction…. Each Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart…
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A Walkabout: Do you Wear Socks?
photo via zara home. A walk about town, I'm not talking about my town, but about a more famous one, some think it is France, but in France we call it Paris. Walking around Paris my feet roll. The…
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Some Smoke Weed, Others Eat it
2011 Wasn't that yesterday? I am beginning to think that when I close my eyes a whole century goes by, and then I wake up to today. Odd. Anyway in 2011 I wrote a post about Annie and her weed…
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A Daily Walk in my Hood
A daily walk in my hood takes me by a river, to the mountains, by an olive orchard, through vineyards, to a chapel on the hill, brings me to a bakery and a market… all less than fifteen…
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Faithful and True
We have lived for nearly twenty-some years in the countryside outside of Marseille. Before that, we lived in Marseille and Paris. Our oldest friends, or my oldest friends in France, live in Marseille. We met over twenty…
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Chelsea on the Steps
This morning before heading back to Paris, Chelsea was sitting on the steps. Rubbing my eyes I saw my daughter as she is a woman. Tears swallowed. Echoing in my mind words often said by parents, "Where did the…