It's Veteran's Day. Armistice Day in France. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. I have visited the site of the signing of the Armistice, the replica of the train car tucked away into the forest near Compiègne in northern France. The original one was burned by Hitler. Merci, Ghislaine. Thank …
Your Loving Vincent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDSTw6mNwY When I first read about Loving Vincent, I was afraid that it would not come to Durham, NC. My fears were confirmed when I started seeing lists of cities where it would be playing on the film's website and Facebook page. No Durham. The closest city listed was Fayetteville. Arles Lucy and I were …
July 28, 2008
The BFF asked me for "my" recipe for mussels- moules- during our Therapy Session this morning. I have Chef Érick's recipe. I can take no credit. Only credit for eating my weight in them! So, down The Sabbatical Chef memory lane we go. To almost the beginning. I haven't re-read it yet. I will. In …
Therapy
The BFF and I call our morning walks therapy sessions. And believe me, they are. We talk about just about anything and everything. This summer, we walked 3 miles every day that we could, usually beginning around 6:00 am. It gets hot and humid here in the North Carolina Piedmont and schvitzing (Yiddish for sweating- it …
A really good day
My morning started this way a couple of days ago. A spider donut left on my desk by an advisee. Thank you, Girlie and Dunkin Donuts. One of my French friends commented--"Not Halloween yet." The whole month of October is Halloween here in the good old U.S. of A, mon amie. C'est normal. Then The …
Dear Google Paris
Dear Google Paris, First, allow me to tell you how much I love you. Well, not necessarily your Paris office since I have not yet visited, but Google. As I say often, I must have been dumber than dirt before you came into my life 19 short years ago. I even made googler into a …
Cuppycakes
In my humble opinion, the best thing we do at my school is group kids into advisories. I am not sure how long ago we started doing this, to tell you the truth. When I arrived at DA in the fall of 1980, as a just-turned 22 year old, I faced a group of …
More Muffins?
Sister Moo found an incomplete place setting of Fiesta ware for me at Kohl's. The dinner plate was missing. Who cares? I love the color. And I realized that it matches the salt and pepper shaker that she found for me at a yard sale in Spruce Pine. (Turns out that the set belonged to …
Paris by proxy
Joanie on her pony Jeanne d'Arc, 1874, Emmanuel Frémiet, 4 rue des Pyramides, Paris 01 Okay, so I am not really sure that I am using "by proxy" properly, even though I looked it up on-line at Urban Dictionary. by proxy: the ability to do or be something without actually physically doing it. "John was …
Fall is calling
My favorite season? Fall. No question about it. I look forward to cooler weather (I am a jeans and sweater kind of girl), nights with a nip in the air, college football games, and changing leaves. I have already spotted evidence around school that fall is on the way in. Knocking softly at the door. …
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