I completely forgot about this post I drafted over two weeks ago, and I hope you won’t mind its belated appearance here. It was such a struggle to write, somehow, that I’m unwilling to simply…
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In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…
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Seemed like a very good time to roll the calendar back to a day in Bordeaux, last November, sitting on the terrace of the Café Tourny enjoying a tartine with my grand crème and sketching. .…
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I’m gratified to see that there’s some interest in the post I’ve promised to write about this grandmother’s developing relationship with her family, and the commonalities I’ve been interested and relieved to find, on chatting…
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Yesterday, as I said I would, I met a dear friend for coffee. Our friendship stretches further back in my life than any other relationship other than those with my siblings, yet we hadn’t seen…
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