This blog is about French food, places and rituals, with tongue often planted firmly in cheek. Maybe it is also about being from somewhere else, and learning to make the place where you live your home. And my home is in the south of France.
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Remember when you were little and first tried to reach the bottom of the pool, fighting the buoyancy of your own body and above all that mad desire to suck in air? In the countryside, without a television or a newspaper subscription, suddenly losing...
I'm a follower of football and other sports, but only in the sense that I pay attention when it becomes too big to ignore. Like when the French won the World Cup in 1998--what untrammeled joy!--and now. Thierry Henry is central today, as he was then,...
Here is some of what I passed this misty morning, on the way to the soulless but well-stocked DIY megamart. It has been a busy time around here (she says aplogetically, thinking of the week's lapse in blogging). Among other home improvement activities,...
Pretty much everyone is off work on November 11th, known as Armistice Day in France, and the date at which in 1918, World War I finally came to an end. In the bloody process, some eight million people lost their lives, and six million were injured....
