Setting the table, placing the silverware alongside the plate, I imagine those who will sit around the table and dine. Hoping their stories will easily unfold like napkins, and that their laughter will be tossed about like a green salad.…

                         "Mommy, why does Kristi call Max Honey? Why doesn't she call him Peanut-Butter?" Sacha asked when he was three. Some of the terms of endearment in French I don't mind: Mon…

My daughter is growing up. I stare at her is disbelief. Wasn’t it a few days ago that I was singing, "This little piggy goes to the market, this little piggy stays home?" Chelsea is looking at universities for next…

                   When the guests arrived everything was in its place. Candles lite, music turn down low, wine opened, lipstick applied, the table set. Mingle mingle, drinky drinky and the party flowed. After the aperitif…

                   Those numbers keep piling up one after another! They seem to be rolling out faster then I can keep track of! Not so long ago 14 was here, then poof it was 37,…

                     Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down so they say. My French language skills contain a ton of errors, and I have a heavy accent. So when I meet…