There has been a tentative date set for my 20-year high school class reunion. OMG. Time passes quickly. But trust me. There is NO WAY I would want to go back and be 18 years old again. Really. I earned every gray hair on this head, baby. But I still love, LOVE the music I grew up with. And although I have recreated almost all of my high ( Read more... )

I should be sleeping. It is after midnight, but I found myself just staring at the darkened ceiling above me thinking about a lot of things. So here I am with my trusty laptop putting it all down for whomever has the patience to read this ( Read more... )

It's the Friday before Christmas, a time that can be quite hectic for most, but strangely enough I find that this has been the first evening I've been able to just relax since. . . some time this summer, maybe ( Read more... )

The morning of September 10, 2007,  I started going through all the stuff that we had brought and had collected since coming to France on May 9, 2006.   I had just three days to separate what we were going to bring back to the States to send on a 20-foot shipping container that would go by sea ship, what would stay for the remaining 6 weeks of our ( Read more... )

Obviously it has been a really long time since I've written.  That's because life got moving faster than usual after my last post, which was Bastille Day here in France.  What a great weekend!  Ended up watching the fireworks over the Eiffel Tower with my kids from the bedroom windown.  The following weekend, Husband took me and the kids to ( Read more... )

The date is set.  We leave Paris on Friday, October 26.

I missed Bastille Day in France last year. It is July 14th, the French independence day, and Paris celebrates it with a HUGE parade on the Champs Elysee and HUGE, HUGE fireworks over the Eiffel Tower. I missed it last year because I was in Oregon having oral surgery done ( Read more... )

Today on the Internet I viewed the realtor’s listing for our ranch back in Oregon. My husband asked if I wanted to see it, knowing full well how much of a struggle it has been for me to let go of this beautiful piece of property. Of course I’ll look, I told him. When he handed me the laptop, I saw images of 100-year-old trees, open pastures, the ( Read more... )

Husband is on a plane, just into the few first hours of a 24-hour trip to get back home to us here in Paris. Less than 15 hours later, he will get on a train to go to London for a three-day conference. Arghhh.... I hate his crazy travel schedule. But you can't bite the hand that feeds you. This is what he does for work ( Read more... )

Mention this four-letter word to a group of people, and you will open a floodgate of different emotions and responses from the folks you are with ( Read more... )