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Me and My RC: February 2011

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Thursday, February 10, 2011. Be Merry (Go Round)! My favorite George Dubya quote is, "the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for. In fact, the French have a whole lot of good words, including entrepreneur, that double as English words: café, fiancée, lingerie, croissant, caramel. To that list I would add. The French make a distinction between a carousel and a. In fact, I have a hard time passing by a. Filled wit...

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Me and My RC: December 2009

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Monday, December 14, 2009. This is not your grandmother's strip mall. Of Paris. I was enchanted. The passages couverts, or covered walkways, were early day shopping malls, developed in the early 19th century, just as Haussman was seriously overhauling the design of the city. And before the development of the department store. This was also at the time when strolling and people watching (the French word flâneur. Wednesday, December ...

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Me and My RC: Sss-sss-sss-Summer, 2011.

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Thursday, August 25, 2011. I'm not exaggerating: I haven't been on this blog in so long that I forgot how to log-in. I had to go to another chat forum, view my signature, to see the link to my blog. But enough with the mea culpas about not posting in forever. You're either a blogger or you're not. I'm not. But let's get to it anyway. I write to you tonight from Normandie, chez Brice ( mes in-laws. R gives a good blow. For making th...

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Me and My RC: February 2010

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Thursday, February 18, 2010. As any casual observer will have noted: there is a ton of dog crap on the streets of Paris. To borrow a device from one of my favorite authors, Chuck Palahniuk. Isn't quite the right word, but it's the only one that comes to mind (oh but wait! Ever since reading Stephen Clarke's amusing A Year in the Merde. I stepped in the merde. While I concede that there are a herd of green-suited street cleaners in ...

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Me and My RC: January 2010

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Monday, January 25, 2010. I've been working like mad in the evenings after the kids have ". To rebuild my iPhoto library. One not-too-smooth drag and drop months ago sent the entire photo library into a tail spin. It's tedious work and all the while I'm thinking how precarious the record of our memories is - they seem just a hard-drive crash away (one of the reasons I remain a fan of Polaroid. Moret-sur-Loing, Alfred Sisley, 1888.

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Me and My RC: April 2010

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Friday, April 23, 2010. In France, it's easy being cheesy. Indeed, the best part about living here is the food culture and part of the fun is getting pretty tuned into different regions based upon their. Offerings, most notably the. I appreciate how history and geography are truly manifest in a region's specialties: Normandie with its rolling hills and dairy cows gives you creamy Camembert, for example. But oh, I digress. An uncook...

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Me and My RC: Be Merry (Go Round)!

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Thursday, February 10, 2011. Be Merry (Go Round)! My favorite George Dubya quote is, "the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for. In fact, the French have a whole lot of good words, including entrepreneur, that double as English words: café, fiancée, lingerie, croissant, caramel. To that list I would add. The French make a distinction between a carousel and a. In fact, I have a hard time passing by a. Filled wit...

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Me and My RC: This is not your grandmother's strip mall.

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Monday, December 14, 2009. This is not your grandmother's strip mall. Of Paris. I was enchanted. The passages couverts, or covered walkways, were early day shopping malls, developed in the early 19th century, just as Haussman was seriously overhauling the design of the city. And before the development of the department store. This was also at the time when strolling and people watching (the French word flâneur. Subscribe to: Post C...

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Me and My RC: Crazy Heat, Tasty Cupcakes.

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Thursday, July 1, 2010. Crazy Heat, Tasty Cupcakes. Ah, passive-aggressiveness abounds and the heat has brought about untold levels of rude encounters. I call it a. Excuse me, mam, it was the car! Which I hadn't known makes clothes for adults. I wore one of those dresses to. Dearest Hubbie and I made 60 mini. Rose and Poppyseed Cupcakes. And participated in a fantastic charity event for. Camille romping it up in a romper. Nope, not...

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Me and My RC: November 2010

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Me and My RC. Notes on living in France with a Roman(R) and a Camille(C). Monday, November 8, 2010. Random is as Random Does. Wow Talk about biting it out on the Blogosphere. Let's see, since I last posted months ago, summer came and went (including a month long stay in the USA), and the cold and dreary temps have settled into Paris with a vengeance. Blogging, I find, is time consuming, at least if I want to (do it) write. So, until more time avails itself to me,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). To Shetland ...