We visited Omaha Beach four years ago, and this is a condensed version of a blog post that appeared on my blog after the visit. It seemed appropriate for Memorial Day. A Germany that was humiliated and impoverished after World War I was ripe for someone as charismatic and patriotic as Adolf Hitler. On January 30, President von Hindenburg appointed Hitler… Read More
Hi friends! Want to take a virtual tour of the Louvre with me? I’ll give you fair warning that we’re only visiting the 1st and 2nd floors today because we have lunch plans in the Latin Quarter. But that’s fine. It’s not a wasted trip. The Louvre is never a wasted trip. When you go, take the train to Metro… Read More
I think it’s kind of cool that the spring festival for my kids’ school involves each class imitating – and learning about – a different artist. We’ve got Juliet’s class with Magritte “Ceci n’est pas une pomme” Juliet is holding her own surrealist illustration where Paris is drawn as stubble on a guy’s face, and it gets razed to the ground with the double… Read More
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
Hello everyone! Well. I finished my novel (although I’m still editing it like crazy). I submitted it to a competition to be picked up by an agent, so I’m not posting any more chapters on the blog for now. If it doesn’t get chosen, I suppose I’ll finish it here and then self-publish it again. But seriously! Why wouldn’t they… Read More
A week ago Friday, my family went to the theatre. My daughter’s class had been chosen to be part of a performance of Noah’s Arc with a professional theatre company, and the families get discount tickets to three performances so the kids can see what it’s like to go to a real performance at night, before they are actually on stage. The… Read More
