One It’s worth it to pay 15 euros extra for the semi-permanent nail polish. Two It’s hard to take a flattering shot of your hands when you’re over forty. Three You can, and should, replace the cutlery basket for your dishwasher with a generic substitute when you realise that – for more than a year – you’ve been wasting time arranging your silverware like a puzzle, in order… Read More
Archives for March 2015
Garden Considerations
I have two things to tell you. The first is that I did well on my French test in order to become a citizen. I needed 160 out of 490 for both parts of the exam, and I got 455 on both. So that’s one thing down in French paperwork, a billion others to go. The second thing is that… Read More
Shifting Focus
My husband bought a new lens. Our old lens is broken and we have another one that is not great quality. And, in addition to using the camera all the time for blogging, we have an upcoming event where we want to take family pictures (we’ll all be dressed up at a château) and we were also asked to photograph… Read More
Swamped
It’s been coming on pretty steadily, even from the beginning of the school year when the school days were shorter by a forty-five minutes. That’s forty-five less minutes to have quiet in the house in order to get stuff done. My teaching hours are different – more early morning and mid-afternoon sessions, less of the long stretches of time at home… Read More
How to Sew Pointe Shoes
There comes a point in every girl’s life … when she gets to live vicariously through her daughter. I think you know my ignominious past with ballet. I started late and was the tall chubby duckling amidst tiny swans. And then I tried again on the Upper East Side in a refined studio, now an adult and at the proper weight…. Read More
Ten Disadvantages of Living in France
Oh I was all up in arms yesterday when I was at the height of my stress and had plenty of ammunition for why my life was terribly hard. But that was yesterday. Today, I can manage no more than a tongue-in-cheek commentary on why it’s so hard to live in France. And I will do so in a minute. But… Read More