Leaning In . . . or Thinking About It

If a friend hadn’t pressed Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In on me, hadn’t insisted on lending me her copy, I wouldn’t have read the book. There’s just so much else to read, after all, and I had…

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A Whistler Weekend and a Book Recommendation

I had such a lovely weekend with four of my sisters and my sister-in-law up at Whistler. I hadn’t been up to this ski resort for 15 years, despite it being only a 90-minute drive…

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Joys of Jet Lag — The Short List!

 As you can see, I’m not yet over the jet lag, but that does have the advantage of allowing me to watch a sunrise from start to finish.  We’re nestling back into the home routine,…

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This and That, gardens and blogging friends and reading. . .

I’ve been busy writing another post about my history in French,part of a proposed continuing series that so far is hitting a high of one post a year. . . .I’m hoping to get it…

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Reading the Signs . . .

A window of a small independent publisher’s bookstore/office, somewhere in Paris’ St. Germain area, if I remember correctly. I have a wealth of bookstore window photos — can’t seem to resist them. And those chairs…

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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 And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own.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.