I’m always on the lookout for books about France from an American’s point-of-view.
Just such a book arrived at my doorstep last week in the form of Mademoiselle Benoir. The publisher promised me that I would love it, and I did!
Inspired by a true story, Christine Conrad’s novel begins when Tim Reinhart, a 30-something […]
I’m back from spending Christmas and New Year’s in Boston where the weather was unusually warm.
There wasn’t much snow to speak of and the New Year’s Eve ice sculptures melted in the rain before I got a chance to see them.
Two weeks was much too short a time to fit in everything I wanted to […]
I just signed up for the La Parisienne 6K road race for women.
Where: Paris
When: September 18, 2005 at 10:00 AM
I can’t believe I missed it the past two years!
It looks like a fun way to see Paris, non?
Anyone else out there planning on running this?
Come on, you know you want to!
You’ll get a nice […]
I think the Blog is back to normal, but if anyone notices anything buggy please let me know.
What I meant to do was change the design and stop spammers from screwing up my stats with their bogus links to my page but now that’ll have to wait a little longer.
Especially now that I’ve […]
Well, I couldn’t leave well enough alone.
I tried to install an upgrade of my WordPress software today and pretty much ruined my day off from work and almost lost all of my posts.
There are a lot of changes from the version I had, to the 1.2.2 version that I now have.
And since I made a […]
I baked a SaraLee cake.
Not just any old SaraLee. This one is special and you probably can’t find it in the States.
It comes with fun extras like a gold, paper crown and a small ceramic fish.
It’s a kit to make a Galette des Rois (King’s Cake) in celebration of Epiphany.
Until I moved to […]
A little luck and a lot of research has made my team (Bananna Splits) into this year’s Fantasy Football Champion!
Just had to share that with my male readers.
Will be back to the knitting just as soon as the excitement wears off.
