Wandering through Nice on my second day in the South, I stumbled into Old Nice, where to be perfectly honest, if you had told me I had stumbled into Italy, I would have totally believed you. It felt nearly identical…
Archives for April 2012
reality check
You’re going along in life, trying to just keep swimming and make it through and then suddenly you look up and you’re picking up graduation robes. How did that happen? I’m still not quite sure, but it sure did put a smile on…
nice
Here’s a fact about me: In middle school and high school French classes, you do a lot of conversation exercises. And a lot of the time, in these conversations you have to inject detials like the name of a French city as…
the violet – spring 2012 issue
It’s really amazing how the blog world can link you to people you would never for any other reason come in contact with. I’ve read Little Brown Pen since my college days when Paris was only a dream. It was…
easter morning
How was your Easter? In France, the Monday after Easter is a national holiday so we are all starting our week today. On Sunday, I got up early (okay, not with the sun ,but definitely before most of Nice-ville) to…
easter goodies
Around Easter time, the bakers of this great nation out-do their normal delicious selves with feasts of which chocolate eggs are only the beginning: bunnies, cats, frogs, owls, sheep, cows, turtles and snails (!) are but a few of the lively…