Stories Collected While Living in France

French la Vie

Category: Living in France

  • Slumber Party in Paris

    Slumber Party in Paris. We are half asleep and heading for the the brocante at Porte Vanves.

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  • The Candy in the Middle of the Box: How to Savor the French Way

    Photos and Text by Corey Amaro: (1988 when I first arrived in France.) The box of assorted chocolates circled around the room. When the hostess offered her guests the box of chocolates the guests would take the chocolate closest to…

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  • The Turkey Child Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving is an American holiday. Thanksgiving celebrates the beginning of life in a new land. The seeds of friendship between two different cultures. The pilgrims and the Indians. The journey of the Mayflower. The need for one another. The helping…

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  • Where Do We Go From Here?

    I had a revelation this morning as the four of us (Chelsea is home for the weekend.) sat at the kitchen table talking and stuffing our faces with cafe au lait and baguettes.Sacha (who just got his braces off,) will…

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  • A Mother and Child Reunion: Goodbye Cocoa Puffs and Donald Duck

      How did I misplace my adventures of motherhood? Was it really this much work? Slowly the memories come to the surface.  Three weeks after I had given birth to Sacha I found out that I had ovarian cancer. Sacha…

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  • The Angel with a Boxing Glove

    Yesterday after noon I went to pick up my French niece and nephew. A smaller child maybe three years old came up to me in the playground. He pulled at my hand, and said in sweet baby French, "Your boy,…

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