I am an American woman living in France.She is French woman living in America. She grew up in a small town in the country.I grew up in a small town in the country. Her parents were bilingual. My parents were…

If babies are born in cabbages then I am expecting many.Annie is showing me how to make stuffed cabbage leaves… and the house does not smell like chocolate…I'll show the details of our cabbage making this evening. From the looks…

  While threading the needle to sew Sacha's worn jeans I asked Annie if she had any tender memories of living during World War II? If there was any light in that dark passage. Anything that reminded her of beauty…

                               Spring is in the air and our garden was in need of a haircut. French Husband, Sacha, and I set out with clippers after breakfast. We are amateur gardeners, who debate where and how much to trim. It is…

I was up on a ladder, in my garden, trimming a rose bush when my friend Annie came over to visit. Looking up at me, then the rose bush she said, "How I wish I were up on that ladder!…

Take an old, chair carcass, cover it with moss, set the chair on the table as a center piece. My friend Laure is a floral artist. Need a shelf? Laure uses an old bench as one, hooks it to the…