Wednesday, 2 Mar 2011 | Views [970]
It’s been two months since our return from the U.S.
but there has been little noteworthy enough to, as the expression goes, “write
home about.” Unremarkable days turn into
unremarkable weeks, and two months later, here I am reporting on our current
plumbing ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, france, going crazy?, inept, plumbing, shower, survival
Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 | Views [2159] | Comments [7]
As seems my habit, it has been quite a while since I have updated my blog, but I am plagued with bouts of "uninspiration" interrupted by crazy amounts of activity, leaving my blog to the wayside. Perhaps inspired by the final arrival of a ... Read more >
Wednesday, 13 Jan 2010 | Views [740] | Comments [2]
It's been a while, but here goes... The Christmas holidays zipped by. I escaped Bourges on the 17th (December), hours before a mild snow brought much of France to a screeching halt; this made especially apparent when Loreto made her own sojourn to Paris ... Read more >
Tags: teaching
Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009 | Views [811] | Comments [2]
This last weekend I took a whirlwind trip to Lyon
for the Fête des lumières , the annual light-spectacular that takes France’s
second-largest city by storm with thousands upon thousands of visitors filling
up hotels in the greater 20km ... Read more >
Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009 | Views [999] | Comments [4]
It’s so funny to me that I attempt to write about what I do in a way that would interest my audience enough that they would want to
read about I'm up to.
Sure I’m in France,
but apart from the continual and lazy threat of strikes and the feasibility ... Read more >
Friday, 23 Oct 2009 | Views [729] | Comments [2]
I
emerge from the darkness almost two months after arriving in France …most literally emerging
from the growing pile of documents that clearly depict the way France bureacracy runs. No less
than 5 copies of everything is made, and it ... Read more >