Summer Dates, August Weddings

While I’ve been writing about Fava Bean Recipes  and Navy Cashmere Sweaters and Churches in France and Chainsawed Beach Furniture, two dates have been creeping closer and closer. One is the date on which my colleagues and I…

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Sunday Contemplations — a French Abbaye

It’s Sunday — a good day to visit a church in Vertheuil en Médoc, France Bright, sunny May outside it was, when we visited, a high noonday sun on a Saturday morning, and the streets…

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Paean to a Navy Cashmere V-Neck

It’s been so long since I last posted on What I Wore. In my penultimate such post, I was pondering a certain fatigue with WIW posts in general, my own in particular. At the time,…

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My Man on the Beach . . .

It’s not everyday one’s husband shoulders the chainsaw & announces he’s off to make a coffee table (from beach logs) #manlyman #swoon & #lol — Materfamilias (@Materfam) August 5, 2012 I tweeted this the other…

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My new Fava-rite Bean . . . Summer food . . .

 Enamoured of the fava beans I’ve eaten in restaurants, I’ve never been able to find them in the local supermarkets and have been resigning myself to growing our own. Then a couple of Fridays ago,…

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