This is Waterproof Mascara time. In my chosen profession, saying good-bye can be overwhelming. A time of joy and a time of sadness. All jumbled up. Moments of unbelievable fun fill up my days and years as a teacher. As I say jokingly (but not really) at this time of year, I get attached to …
Category: travel
Critters
I started looking through my photos from the January and March trips to France (yet once again) and found an theme: critters. I did not realize I had so many until I started looking for them. Of course, what would it be like in Paris without pigeons? Bertrand, our guide par excellence, said that you …
Baguettes et Beurre vs Biscuits and Bacon
It isn't a competition for me. Really, it isn't. I have been back from my annual spring break trip for almost two weeks and it has taken me this long to get to the blog. I go through a sort of grieving process and a bit of withdrawal every time I leave France. This year's …
This & That: March 2017 Edition
Dirty dishes? This is a great photo because this is all I had to dirty in order to make two loaves of banana bread this fine Sunday morning. I found a new recipe, located the overripe bananas that the Ex-Ex had stashed on top of the refrigerator (the man detests messy countertops), and stirred up …
Puppies, kittens, and Paris
I am tired of news. I refuse to watch it or read it. It only makes me grumpy and grouchy. And anyone who knows me knows that I am neither very often. Life is too short. And in the words of Jacques Prévert, my favorite French poet, "Later will be too late. Our life is …
97 and 41
A post from the past entitled 94 and 47 popped up on my Facebook page yesterday. It was from 2013. At first, I couldn't figure out what the title meant. Then, looking at the smiling faces of La Blonde et La Brune, it dawned on me. The countdown until my 2014 trips to France! I …
Let them eat brioche?
**Update October 25, 2016 Sometimes the most wonderful things happens when you write a blog. You make new friends. And you realize that people really do read what you write. I write this blog this for me, but if I can reach just a few others who have the same interests I do, then I …
Searching for Aimée Leduc
I blogged about Cara Black and her heroine, Aimée Leduc three years ago. I was just reminded of Aimée by Arles Lucy because she shared Bonjour Paris's interview with Cara. I am ready for the next novel!! 2017, set in Saint Germain. If you have read any of Cara Black's Aimée Leduc novels, you know …
Heroes
Ask Americans of a certain age where they were on 9/11 and they can tell you. I was in a 7th grade team meeting. Before internet and televisions in all classrooms. Most of us didn't even have radios. Sounds like the Dark Ages to the young'uns. The kids I teach this year, in 6th, 7th …
the sabbatical chef 