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…

This is a can/bottle top opener. Simple, straightforward, good design, about twenty years old and I brought it from America to France. Because, at that time I could not figure out how to use the even simpler French can opener…

                                        Okay, I am going to get right down to the task at hand and answer the questions that you have asked me. I will try to keep the answers short, and some of them I will go into depth…

  We live in a small village outside of Marseilles, it is over a thousand years old. Yes, over a thousand years old. A section of Roman road… (History) has passed through this village, down our street, in my house…