This is what farmers do when they want to have pretty nails for the upcoming BlogHer conference in New York City. Surgical gloves to dig up the potatoes! Not a very green thing to do, but then BlogHer only comes once a year. (Unless you’re attending BlogHer Food or BlogHer Europe). Oh! You didn’t know BlogHer Europe existed? Well it… Read More
Archives for July 2012
La Seine et Les Seins
The alternate, albeit less interesting, title is: Summer Days. If you are even remotely familiar with Paris, you will know that La Seine (pronounced La Senn) is the river that runs through Paris and continues on to its outlying suburbs. Les seins (pronounced lay seh, with an eh that sounds like you’re shrugging your shoulders and saying it’s just… Read More
Olympic Efforts
I’ve just a few more postcards for you from our trip to Bretagne. They’re about as orderly as this. Random clouds of sand kicked up with no order. There was our usual trip to Dinard, just us. For ice-cream and photos. Ice-cream before the photos = not very wise. And the usual getaway. The pursuit and the hostage negotiations. Another… Read More
What – Me Worry?
I’m sorry to say that this post is just like one of those rides at the amusement park. You know – the swings that you sit in, that rise up very high and soar outwards, going around and around until you’re dizzy? But that is what my life has become, and it’s not surprising that the words are soaring out… Read More
I Wish
I wish I were young enough to do this. Don’t you? PS Since I wasn’t able to address any of the lovely comments you left me on the last post, I feel I should clarify that we did not, in fact, actually stay in that castle on the cliff. We’re really rather ordinary people, you know. PPS I’m back –… Read More
Welcome to Bretagne
Greetings from Bretagne where you wear sweaters on the beach. No worries, though – there are plenty of things to do. You can, for instance, jump off the wall. You can also cry because you’re not allowed to jump off the wall. You can pretend you’re a monkey. You can decide that you’re going to risk getting a little wet… Read More