Category: Living in France
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French Lesson
The true riches we often realize too late: Still having your parents. Having a healthy body. Having genuine friends. Having time for yourself. Being able to sleep without worry. Laughing for no reason. Feeling like you truly belong. What would…
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Summer Bliss
The way the sunlight came through the trees, the scent of figs, grapevines, and earth swirling around me, the crispness of the air filling my lungs, the hoot of the night owl calling in the distance, reminding me summer is…
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What We Did Today
Lounged in the pool. Read by the pool. Had lunch. Took naps. Played game in the pool. Napped again, read again. Had dinner.
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Family Dinner
We are in vacation, happily together. Martin and Chelsea prepared the dinner- Ratatouille, rice, layered beets with scallions and herbed cream cheese, and fig/apricot tart. Perfectly delicious and light on a very warm evening. Gabriel’s food books- His biggest concern…
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What Not to do When You are Jetlagged
Laundry. Don’t do it. Or risk your whites coming out another color. After 40 years of flying between France California I should know what not to do when jet lag. I made a ding dong mistake at 3 am I…
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Hellos and Goodbyes
The leaving. It asks more of me now- this goodbye pierced heavier, and deeper. This time, something happened that caught me off guard. I cried uncontrollably at the airport. I remembered the first time I left home for France. I…