Category: Living in France
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The Difference Between the French and the American
Someone once told me that the difference between a Frenchman and an American could be summarized like this: "If you put a Frenchman and an American in the middle of a forest and asked them to find their way…
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Family Reunion
Family reunion. Who knew it would be so hard to get four people together? And when we are together we rarely remember to take photos, let alone a photo. Sacha leaves for Chicago. Where he will be doing…
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The Meaning of Cute Signs, or How Not to be French
The impasse that we live on does not have a street sign, though it is has a name that nobody in our village knows of. Instead they refer to it as, "Where Monsieur Dupont use to live." To complicate the…
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The Cost of Shipping from France
Fourteen people waiting, only one line open. That was how the morning began at the post office. When it was my turn, the postal worker looked at me with a soured face, looked at the box said something under…
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The Paris Apartment… How it is Going
Saturday morning we took the TGV to Paris. Regis our "mason" (builder in French) friend wanted to see the apartment before he started the job. During the three hour train ride we talked over the original blueprint. In my…
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Children Can Handle the Truth Better Than We Think
Photographs and Text by Corey Amaro When my children were little, we had a magical organic vegetable garden. We had tomatoes until December, green beans that made Jack-in-the-bean-stalk look like any Tom-Dick-or-Harry-kind-of-ordinary-guy,…