Desire for a New Bag, Prune-Coloured.. . . Or?

We’re back in our Bordeaux rental now, where it will be good to sleep more than four nights in a row in the same bed, to have easy access to laundry facilities (we have a…

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this Morning, Trying to Blog

Even before this morning’s tragic news, I’ve been disinclined to move to the written word. Unwilling to attend to the impact of having our home listed online, of having a For Sale sign at our…

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Waiting. And Thinking. And Waiting

I posted this not long before I went to bed last night, and when I woke at 3, it seemed a mistake, as so many things do at 3 a.m. I groggily found my way…

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For that One Particular Fly, Nana. . . Families and Health

Throughout my pregnancies — so 30 and more years ago — there were some tests available to ascertain the health of the fetus, but not nearly as many as there are now, nor were they…

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Here and There, a (Memory) Visit to Keukenhof

One of the wonderful and fascinating results of travel, for me, is the way memory grabs certain moments and returns you to them randomly. So that often, you might be in the middle, say, of…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.