It’s All Maya!

This past week for four days at the Hôtel de Ville there was a big event for making people aware of becoming a donor.

Unlike in the US where you can put whether you want to donate your organs on your driver’s license, here in France it’s a bit more complicated, but with the help of […]

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I don’t know which it is, but whatever Patrick is drinking it’s not working that well. Patrick was watching the quarter finals in the World Cup between Paraguay and Spain the other day when I came into the living room.
“Who’s playing” I said, sitting down to watch the game.
“Paraguay and Spain.”
“Who’s who?”
“Spain is red and […]

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I know, I know, Hemingway was speaking figuratively when he spoke about Paris being a moveable feast, but for the past month since arriving back in France it has literally been a moveable feast!  We have done nothing but travel  throughout France eating, drinking, and socializing with family and friends.

We arrived in Paris and left […]

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(School Days - Mom, middle row, far left.)
My mom is an extraordinary woman who had a difficult life as a young child and some of her earliest memories are those that sound like a Stephen King novel turned into a horror movie.  Painful memories that anyone would want to forget, so I won’t go into […]

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Mode of transportation in DC.
The saying, “when it rains, it pours” is true, but have you noticed that the opposite is also true?  When all the planets are aligned and everything just falls into place, it’s like the gods are all smiling down upon you.  Well that’s exactly how our trip to DC was.  Everywhere […]

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El Paso:  I love El Paso.  It’s a place where you can breath because of the vast openness of the desert.  Where the stars are as big as ripe apples and you feel that you can just reach out and pluck one down from the sky.  I see the beauty that surrounds this border town, […]

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6 of us went to New York City.
8 of us flew to Texas.
10 of us traveled to Phoenix.
6 of us continued on to Las Vegas.
So when the decision was made to fly to San Francisco, you know it wasn’t going to be just Patrick and I getting on that plane!  Nope, there were eleven of […]

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New Year’s Eve in Times Square is a once in a lifetime experience and now I know why!  Anyone would be crazy to do it more than once!
Getting to Times Square at 3:00 in the afternoon was already far too late.  Times Square was filling up faster than a Black Friday Christmas sale!  Katarina, Patrick, […]

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The one thing that I will miss here are the long walks on our private beach, where our dolphins appeared to us everytime I let out a high tone whistle.  Patrick use to look at me like I was crazy when I would pucker up and whistle as high a note as I could muster, but […]

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Is it any wonder that Hollywood is in an uproar that Roman Polanski was held by Swiss authorities when he was on his way to the Zurich Film Festival for a lifetime achievement award???  Of course not!  These people don’t live by the same standards that you and I live by!  When the rich and famous […]

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