Category: Living in France
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The Nutcracker
We went to see The Nutcracker after watching it countless times at home. Their favorite part has always been the Mouse Battle, not the Sugar Plum Fairy. Olivia’s nickname comes from Claire. Every time we watch The Nutcracker, we try our grand jetés…
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In the Keeping of Soil and Thread
He laid the socks into the basket, the cotton thinned by years of walking row to row. When he lifted his eyes to her, they held each other’s gaze and understood without speaking: by her care, there was still a…
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Have and Have Not
Photo text author unknown Jean-François Millet painted The Gleaners in 1857.
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Dancing in the Park
Walking home hand in hand with Olivia after her dance class, we heard someone playing music. We followed the sound and found a man, alone in our town’s park, playing the saxophone. Olivia ran to a bench, telling me to…
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Thankfulness
I want to pause for a moment and say thank you to those of you who reached out to me both before and after my blog was down. Knowing that people noticed, cared, and took the time to write reassured…
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Frustrating Blog Complications-
For twenty years I have written a blog every day. I missed a single day when my platform at the time, Typepad, had a technical problem for about 24 hours and it could not post. I changed platforms two years…