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We lived in the US for most of our lives. We live in France now. It's a lot to take in. Practical and impractical discoveries from our lives here with odd connections, historical bits, food and music.
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Cloclo Goes to America (opens the original)
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Music has been one of my best ways into French, partly because I can remember a lyric long before I remember a grammar rule. But it’s also been a shortcut into the culture itself: the references everybody gets, the songs people grew up with, the stuff their parents played, the jokes, arguments and slightly embarrassing opinions people already have waiting to come out.And Claude François is almost perfect for this. Mention Cloclo to a French person and you rarely get a blank stare. You get a smil
Just How Long is a Temporary Situation? (opens the original)
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As a former NYC teacher, September used to mean new students, new pencils and the chance to start again. Now in France, it means visas, driving tests, paperwork—and an increasingly harder question of whether another year here is building something or just making it harder to leave.TL;DR / Bref!:[This one wanders, but it goes through connections I keep coming back to.] I taught for about 20 years—long enough to rearrange my internal clock/calendar. January still feels too dormant, time to endure
A House on Paper (opens the original)
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I can find out almost everything about a home & a place I’ve never seen. And it can’t tell me if we’d enjoy our lives there, or to help us figure out what parts of our lives we’d want to keep when we moved there.Where you live determines a lot of what your life is like. It’s a big question.Bref.:We’ve developed a hobby of looking at houses all over France, but listings — and even the houses — are only part of it. Other questions come up: how much space we need, how much driving we want, what kin
Sea Pickles & Standing Stones (opens the original)
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We drove two hours into Brittany for a standing stone in a marsh that floods twice a day on a nondescript peninsula on a tidal inlet. When it was stood up, the entire landscape was different, some peninsulas became islands and plants adapted, slowly.I didn’t mark it on the map, but I remembered there was salicorne growing near it. May—July is peak season, but there is often good growth into September.Bref: Salicorne is one of those plants that tastes unmistakably of where it grows. Its marsh-lik
Subscriber Office Hours this Thursday (opens the original)
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