US election 2024
Sunday, 29 September, 2024. In France, we’re good. My office is wondrous save that I must be disciplined not to stare out onto the horse pastures. and mist-draped hills. Financial planning, luck, and US citizenship have provided security and advantage. In this...
Time of peace, Time of troubles
Мирное время, но Смутное время, какое же? [Time of peace….time of troubles] Patrice and I are living a near idyllic life in France. However, in late of this my seventh decade, I am concerned . Is much that I value in my western world is under threat or is it my...
New Yorkers
They take some getting used to! How New Yorkers see the United States. If three New Yorkers enter a taxi without arguing, a bank has been robbed. Phyllis Diller, New Yorker. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she...
East Southeast France, Summer 2024
Morning Coffee, our view This summer 2024 in SSE France has been exquisite. Cloudless skies, soft breezes, flowers blooming in succession. Morning fogs descend the hills burning off by 9AM. Heavy rains in April and May burst a dam far upstream, flooding some houses...
A Park for all Seasons
Terrace of Parc Joly An American in France Les Français au Nouveau Monde The Parc Joly, Semur-en-Auxios, Cote d’Or, France, renders me nostalgic. I am a volunteer, my specialty mortarless stone wall construction. In 1965, the summer before I left for the university, I...Featured Books
Spirit Falls
Spirit Falls, is a coming-of-age novel set in the empty hardscrabble borderland between Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. It is an affecting story of childhood friendship growing into profound love.
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