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Kindness Unmasked
Posted on Jan 07,2021 by JanSmi
My husband Don is what the French call un sportif. He runs (has around twenty marathons to his credit), he plays baseball (the Men’s Senior Baseball League World Series) and he works out. Unlike some of us (me, for example), he doesn’t have to think about this or program it into his schedule. It’s just part of his normal life. { read more }
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Soup Kitchens à la Française
Posted on Jan 04,2021 by JanSmi
People starving, unemployment skyrocketing, mobs in the street, a government about to be replaced and doing nothing to help.
Sound familiar? { read more }

Dreaming Of Paris...
Posted on Aug 04,2020 by JanSmi
Five minutes in Paris and I feel that I have been transformed into a Parisienne. The bustle, the beautiful women rushing by in their pencil skirts with high heels clacking. I’m dreaming of sitting in a café, drinking a citron presse, listening to the romantic French language, and watching lovers stare into one another’s eyes. { read more }
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Planning The Future With The Past
Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi
Many people inherit family recipes, but Muriel and Olivier Madeline inherited some with a difference. They were for a range of the most famous perfumes of les années folles - that is, the Roarin’ 20s, - perfumes that had been created by their great-grandmother, Germaine Duval { read more }
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Paris Cracks Open
Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi
It’s official: Paris is cracking open piece by piece. Or as the French government says, deconfinement is here. { read more }
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Twilight In The City Of Lights
Posted on Aug 03,2020 by JanSmi
Quiet, oh so quiet. Paris, without its honking horns, without its clinking glasses, without its boisterous conversations. Paris without its audience. { read more }
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