Happy Holidays | Joyeuses Fêtes

At the checkout line yesterday my cashier had no pleasantries for me, but instead began speaking by saying how 20% of the students at his daughter's high school were out sick; and that he had to go and visit her teachers to pick up her assignments because she's in advanced placement...

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La Mémoire Vive: An Intimate View of France

I can still remember the first time I rode through the narrow roads that wind through the cow peppered hills towards the tiny village of Masmoulineix to visit my husband's grandmother. Passing fields of glimmering sunflowers. Swerving past a rusty Renault that knew the country...

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Ribbons & Light | Rubans et Lumière

It's been a blur of golden ribbon and gift wrap as a load of Christmas packages for family and friends were readied and shipped to France this past weekend... completing this annual tradition is an enormous feat in our household, and we celebrated by putting up the tree and finally getting to...

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Printable Calendar: December | Décembre 2012

As temperatures drop and winter looms large, I'm patiently waiting (indoors) for the arrival of gently falling flocons de neige (snowflakes) - the tiny, weightless, magnificent formations that whisper like angels... but can cause a devilish uproar! For the month of December, here's a calendar...

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