Je Vais Mal
Don’t worry, this isn’t another political-ish post. Not today. I feel like I’ve hit my stride with teaching French to preschoolers. When my announcements on the playground of, “Hey friends, I’ll be...
View ArticleEt alors… quoi de neuf?
My long hiatus has been unintentional. Sort of. Truth: What is going on in the U.S. has thrown me for a serious loop. When I began my blog years ago, I wanted to write about the often funny, always...
View ArticleSpringtime in Paris
Fifteen years ago, this month, I quit my job and set off for Paris. On March 19, in fact. It was everything I dreamed it would be. And more. A lot led up to that trip. Like many who work … Continue...
View ArticleGetting There
I’m writing a series of posts on a trip I took to France 15 years ago. This is the first installment. Soon after I graduated from my physical therapy program and moved to San Diego, I met a group …...
View ArticleFirst Days
I’m writing a series of posts on a trip I took to France 15 years ago. This is the second installment. See the introduction here and the first entry here. My flight arrived in Paris the next morning,...
View ArticleNational Gun Violence Awareness Day – a uniquely US tradition
A brief interlude from my trip down memory lane…. Yes, you read the title correctly. This is a yearly awareness day we have in this country. Gun violence and the United States are synonymous. American...
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2020, You are Exhausting
I haven’t written for a long time. I’m working on entries about my language vacation, but I’m going to be honest – the state of affairs in my country has me beat down. A lot of my energy has been...
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The Marshall Fires
We are not okay. I had a brief moment of relief and hope in November, 2020. Until this sank in: 74 million people in this country thought that four more years of the Florida Man was a good idea. And...
View ArticleOne Nation, Under Guns*
A couple of weeks after a gunman murdered 10 people in a grocery store near me, I threw on flip flops to pick a few things up at the grocery store. When I got there, all I could think was – why did I...
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Maybe Someday….
Voiles d’Antibes Summer 2023 The south of France has always called to me, even before I met the Frenchman I married. Fifteen years ago, we spent part of our summer in Antibes, just west of Nice. I...
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