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19th Century French Love Letters
2025-12-03 11:00 UTC by Corey

Finding a French love letter is a rare feat. Understandably, who’s gonna let go of a love letter? A French legal document from the 1600s sure let those go- but a love letter?

Recently, I came across a small bundle of 19th-century letters- folded, yellowed, and edged with delicate embossing, written by children to their grandparents, parents,...

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Cezanne Paints
2025-12-02 11:00 UTC by Corey

Quiet, the crickets

On the still branches

The trees are casting rays

And subtle shadows

Quiet in the house

Quiet on the hill

These scents one gets a whiff of

Are the smell of the season

But here comes the man

Cezanne Paints-Frances Gall’s lyrics translated

“Where did the artist stand to paint this painting? Cézanne painted...

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Becoming Madame
2025-12-01 11:00 UTC by Corey

The woman at the boulangerie calls me, Madame.

In France, I’ve watched the women in the market carry their years like velvet fabric—softened by time, more beautiful for having been used and loved and washed in the light.

My hands look like older women’s now.

Gabriel, my grandson, traced the veins on the back of my hand yesterday....

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The Bookshelf That Doesn’t Hold Books to Read
2025-11-30 11:00 UTC by Corey

There is a bookshelf in my house that doesn’t have books to read. Most friends walk past without a second glance.

To be fair, it lives in a unlit corner — From a distance, it looks like a long, tired shelf holding up dusty, forgotten books.

Because those books?
They aren’t the kind I read.
They are the kind I bought because the...

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Twenty Years and One Day
2025-11-29 11:00 UTC by Corey

Well, wow — you all really know how to make a person feel good. Thank you for all your generous, kind messages. Some of you I’ve met, many of you I haven’t, but almost all of you feel familiar when I see your names in the messages you send me. I recognize you, like you’re right here beside me. I’m really grateful for all the...

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20 Years – Everyday
2025-11-28 11:00 UTC by Corey

Twenty years.
Can you believe it? Because I barely can.

I’ve been writing here every day for two decades. Twenty years! I know I like to talk, but even I have to admit… this borders on the extravagant. Possibly even a touch of the ridiculous. Maybe—if we’re being honest—somewhere on the outskirts of crazy. And yet here we are,...

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