This is our friend, Thierry. Our dear friend and business partner for more than twenty years. Today is a good day. Our friend’s birthday. As we sang in his hospital room.… “Happy Birthday Thierry, and maaaannnnnnyyyyy mooooorreeeee!” Thank you for…

French antique guessing game, I do not know how many I have had over the years. But I do know that some were easier than others. The correct answer has always been guessed, though sometimes it took a few days…

Photo Source via Nicol Sayre   Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart…

    When friends come to visit, the talk is non stop late until the night. They come bearing gifts from afar. The wonder, when they bring chocolates from their stop in Marseille, not just any shop but the oldest…

Wednesday's Word back in 1996- Sacha and I were at the hairdresser's. I was looking at a magazine. Sacha was checking out his surroundings. The women waiting, were admiring Sacha's curls and his English vocabulary. "Mommy, do you know how…

Reflections. Memories.  One after another. Connecting one moment of time to the present. A song came on the radio,  the words transform now to then-  I am a little girl out in my dad's barn, suddenly I see him standing…