French Politeness Scale

Posted: November 12, 2015 at 8:42 am

  “It’s pretty here, Billy, but the French are so rude,” said my sister Cathy, as we sat on le Verdun’s terrasse, side by side, facing out. Cathy had come…

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Bucket List

Posted: November 5, 2015 at 9:12 am

  Word got around Devon's soccer pitch, and one day a soccer mom friend touched my arm while I watched my son practice. I knew who it was before I…

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How I Used To Feel

Posted: October 22, 2015 at 8:59 am

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Meet the Author

Posted: October 15, 2015 at 7:09 am

  I brimmed with confidence, 25 pages of heartfelt memoir burning a hole in my laptop. I felt like a writer, and Carol and I were about to see another…

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Can You Spell Catharsis?

Posted: October 2, 2015 at 7:35 am

  Details of the arrangements made to move from a big house crammed with stuff to France are mostly boring and rarely funny. But for simplifying our lives, it was…

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