Enough is enough! With all of the French financial aid available to families here, the protesting gilets jaunes complaints are getting really old and lack validity! I am sick of the continued violent protests each Saturday by these “gilets jaunes”. They got the hated gasoline tax suspended, but they continue to protest like insatiable spoiled …
French Financial Aid To Families That Will Make You Envious Read More »
Happy Quantum Leaps! 2019 is with us. I prefer to take a quantum look at the “new year”, rather than in a linear way. Life on planet earth continues without showing any difference in being “new.” Or does it? Without being a killjoy, the thrill of numbers changing on a calendar just isn’t there …
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This is a Christmas message to those of us in pain this holiday season. It is often the most painful time of the year for us who are already depressed, in grief, in a painful circumstances of loss or rejection, and feeling alone. I do not have to know your name to want to comfort …
Seeking refuge from a difficult world, I find the extraordinary beautiful Saint Lucia procession is like being uplifted to an ethereal cloud of song and beauty. Saint Lucia day is a very popular Christmas celebration in Sweden, recreated by the Swedish church of Paris and by Swedish students here. The approaching Christmas season carries …
I had decided last Saturday to take photos of the Gilets Jaunes during their manifestation on the Champs Élysée. I am glad my plans changed! I had even thought of wearing my own gilet jaune as a token of my sympathy. I, along with 72% of the French people, at that time, was initially supportive of their movement …
Will A Temporary Moratorium Stop The Explosive Angry Waves Of Les Gilets Jaunes? Read More »
Paris would never be Paris without the Seine. Paris was birthed in the middle of it, on Ile de la Cité, one of the most prominent islands that dot along the whole river. The banks of the Seine, called quais in French, have now officially returned back to Parisians, who were deprived many years of …
Banks Of Seine Return To Parisians And A Bit Of Cheese Read More »
Walking the sidewalks of Paris is the very best way to see and feel the energy of the city, yet it can be hazardous. Dodging people, sidestepping the pigeons and not sliding on wet gooey leaves are already enough. At least there will be one less thing to watch out for though. No, I am not …
Parisian Sidewalks Just Got A Little Less Hazardous Read More »
I felt a longing to be around an abbey in the silence of the countryside as Thursday was All Saints Day, a holiday here in France and the next day the celebration of the dead, a difficult weekend for me, even more so since the death of my son. Families go to the cemeteries to honor their …
Ancient Abbey, Soup Festival, And Healing Vichy Waters Read More »
When it rains, it pours, it seems. Mishaps, mischance and misfortune like Rabelais said, never come alone! They come totally unexpected, suddenly disrupting our everyday lives and throwing us into time spent fixing them we ordinarily would avoid like the plague. October is a transition month, so not surprisingly there are serious earthly rumbles of hurricanes, floods …
Truffle hunting in Champagne? I had never heard of truffles from Champagne before, except the chocolate ones made to look like Champagne corks of course. Truffles generally come from two areas in France, Provence, and the Perigord region, and I have never even thought I going truffle hunting before. While on my recent grape picking adventure …
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You never know how much you can miss a thumb, unless well, you can’t use one! When the useless thumb belongs to your dominant hand, you miss it even more! Hand surgery on my thumb 13 days ago kept me from writing any new posts up until now. First, it was in a splint and even …
As a neophyte therapist, I was really surprised to find that well more than half of my patients, majority female, had suffered from some sort of sexual abuse. Due to hand surgery last Thursday, I am republishing this updated article, as I can not type much with any ease. Sexual assault is the unwanted and …