First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers — although as far I can gather from Social Media, few of you have time to be reading blogs during the mad prep of your day.…
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A few weeks ago, Almost Eleven texted to ask if we could pick her up from school the next day. I texted back “Of course. Want to stay for dinner?” And she flashed back “Yes,…
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After Friday’s post with those images of the mural I photographed last June in Bordeaux, I did a bit more research and found this video of “The Making Of”— which shows both the in-studio work…
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Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…
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While I’m unlikely to learn the value of a good thick skirt for travel by falling into a jaguar pit — as did 19th-century traveller Mary Kingsley, whose skirt saved her from impalement on the…
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