Nicolas Sarkozy, a man hated in the particular circles of French culture I frequented while abroad, was elected to the presidency yesterday. I am not typically a political person, but when one is in France, one can’t really help becoming political. When politics stop your trains and blockade your schools, you start, at the veryContinue reading “L’elu”
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Take that, Cream Puff
Apparently, France is fattening at about the same rate as America (“France following the path of the United States,” runs the headline. Otherwise, all you may get from this is a nice picture of a fat woman’s derriere). How did we get to this point, you ask? Was it the Normandy butter, the four thousandContinue reading “Take that, Cream Puff”
2005 in review
It was a strange year, dawning on the Champs Elysees with a few friends and ending in Sandpoint, Idaho with a few friends — one of which was an overlap. Last April, in the South of France, my contact proff’s husband was teaching me how to snorkle. The water was freezing, streching from gray toContinue reading “2005 in review”
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