Materfamilias Writes

Playing Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .

Playing Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .

Another passage from Karl Olve Knausgaard’s A Man in Love (the 2nd volume of his My Struggle series) illustrates some of that gradual fading we observe of the intensity of a time away from home, the remembered…

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Planning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais

Planning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais

Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…

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Foggy Thoughts from the Margins

Foggy Thoughts from the Margins

You might well be wearying of my consideration of the liminal space, or spaces, I perceive myself occupying these days. I’d be the first to acknowledge that it’s a privileged Liminality, particularly now when so…

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Let’s have Coffee– in Croatia!

Let’s have Coffee– in Croatia!

Thanks so much for your kind comments on my Paris Love Story. After the recent tragic events in that city we’ve visited so often and love so dearly, I wasn’t sure whether I could continue…

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Paris Windows and the Liminality of Retirement

Paris Windows and the Liminality of Retirement

I loved the graphic patterns in neutral colours in this fall window in Bordeaux Oh my goodness! I’ve been home over two weeks now, and my post-travel thoughts on transition are at grave risk of…

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