Gardening, Reading, Remembering Paris. . .

My garden is glorious, if I do say so myself, and what an absolutely splendid time to return from a week in Paris! Yes, I’m up and outside by 5 a.m., watching the sun come…

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What a weekend!

Some images from the weekend: This was undoubtedly the best moment (Nola met her new cousin, Eloise), but there was also this Wherein we marvelled together at Brian Selznick’s magical pencil illustrations in The Invention…

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Lovely Lazy Weekend

 I’ve had a lovely weekend, a good portion having been spent right here in my leather armchair, reading a yummy mystery novel (Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train), shamelessly ignoring the books I have to…

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Oh, for a Translator . . .

When I was home yesterday, the extraordinary noises the California sea lions were making out in our bay lured me outside with my little camera to try to capture the soundscape. The visual quality of…

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Five Things Friday

1. The summer before last, Paul and I watched this film en français, in a great little repertory cinema in Bordeaux. We grasped enough to know it was powerful, very moving, but we knew we’d…

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