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Should I Share More Recipes?
2025-01-26 11:00 UTC by Corey


My scrapbook cookbook began when I first arrived in France 37 years ago. I bought a thick paperback school notebook and carried it with me everywhere, jotting down notes about French cooking, as well as recipes from family, friends, and restaurants.

Since I don’t cook with recipes, you could say I’m an intuitive cook. But when you move...

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Weekly Top Posts: 2025-01-26
2025-01-26 05:00 UTC

  1. Grocery Shopping in Normandy, Plus Recipes
  2. Have You Been Following Chelsea?
  3. A Fragile Hope
  4. Walking the Sand Dunes in Normandy
  5. Floating Islands, a French Dessert

Gabriel and the Word Embarrassed
2025-01-25 11:00 UTC by Corey

Gabriel (5) asked Chelsea, his mom, what the word “embarrassed” meant.

Chelsea gave examples that she knew Gabriel would understand, such as going to pick him up at school with her slippers on, or standing in front of the school and her pants falling off. Chelsea explained the descriptive word as a funny story.

Gabriel listened intently then...

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The Way They Were, the Way we Are
2025-01-24 11:00 UTC by Corey

Each photo holds a moment that once felt permanent.


What remains is not what we see,

But a quiet truth- which is felt deeply, understood over time.

Even though everything changes, these shifts don’t erase the connections that exist between all things.

In these old photos, the people in them may not be you and I,...

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Stand up/Speak Out
2025-01-23 11:00 UTC by Corey

« Episcopal Bishop, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, publicly called out Trump to his face today at a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. This was some next level Jesus-style calling out the powerful that you rarely see exampled anymore.

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as...

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Floating Islands, a French Dessert
2025-01-22 11:00 UTC by Corey

When I first came to France, the first dessert I had at my mother-in-law’s was Îles Flottantes—Floating Islands. I had never heard of it, nor had I ever tasted it, but I enjoyed every bite. My mother-in-law made it often, but recently, due to her poor eyesight, she stopped baking and cooking.

She has been saddened by...

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Have You Been Following Chelsea?
2025-01-21 02:00 UTC by Corey

A few photos from Chelsea’s Instagram. If you haven’t been following her go take a peek by tapping this link. Your French Rendez- vous


 

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