Materfamilias Writes

Back to Bordeaux via my Illustrated Journal…

Back to Bordeaux via my Illustrated Journal…

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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Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Want to play a guessing game? I’m easing gradually off my couch, away from the box of kleenexes and the packet of cough drops, moving slowly into the year. Some stock-taking is in order (I…

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas (with a little help from some Paris light). . .

Wishing you a Merry Christmas (with a little help from some Paris light). . .

A few years ago, as I posted much earlier, we were pointed to St. Pierre church in Montmartre by a lovely woman dining right next to us in a tiny Paris restaurant. One of the oldest…

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Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

We have been plunged so completely and wonderfully and satisfyingly and exhaustingly back into family life in our new home that I’ve scarcely had a moment to think about my ten weeks away. Yet as…

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Home, Sweet Cold and Snowy Home. . .

Home, Sweet Cold and Snowy Home. . .

 Jetlag still has its cruel hooks in me — at least, I feel fine except that I haven’t yet slept more than three hours at a time since Friday night. Our travel home was uneventful,…

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