Home with my mother's chocolate chip cookies. This is a repost so I can catch up with family…   Flour, sugar, brown sugar, butter, eggs, chocolate chips, walnuts, vanilla, pinch of salt and baking powder…  The ingredients are usually…

  A few photos from 2014. Some of my nieces.   The last few years my five younger nieces and I have been in a long hair contest. The last three years my niece Maci has won, then Marie won…

Luca, a friend of our family, who is French/American and studying in California this year, wrote:   "If you're angry, sad, or scared, you have every right to feel that way, but now isn't the time to run away. Problems don't…

    Heading home. I know home is in France, but home is also with my mom and family in Willows. Next year I will have lived longer in France than I did in the USA. Home isn't a place…

  Whatever we do will have an effect on someone. It might or might not come back to us. A blessing doesn't count on whether it does or doesn't. A blessing is freely given. How many did I give today?…

  A book review: The Velvet Hours Reviewed by Tongue in Cheek Blog Reader and dear friend Jackie Lantry: I was interested in reading The Velvet Hours primarily because of the “frozen in time/Parisian apartment” pictures I’d seen online.  …