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about me.
- Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
- France
- I'm a somewhat contrary woman who, in March of 2008, decided to leave corporate life behind and pursue a dream. The resulting misadventures are documented here, as I reinvent my life in France. On a side note, I write as I speak ... lots of run-on sentences, misapplied ellipses and unexpectedly plentiful parenthetical pauses. This is unlikely to change.
jump on the bandwagon here.
My boutique in Brantôme, France
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My daughter's décor boutique in Berkeley, California
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when the dog bites. when the bee stings.
- a pretty how town
- chez rigsby
- citizen of the month
- david lebovitz
- diary of amy rigby
- foreign parts
- funkalicious blogsite of my cynical cousin Nate
- l'ennui mélodieux
- margaux motin (nouvelle! mon premier link pour un blog de francais!)
- non-working monkey
- our juicy life (notre vie juteuse)
- pease pudding
- the bloggess
- utah savage
time for some international dreaming.
- absolutely the BEST European lodging guide ever - Alastair Sawday
- americans in france
- best collection of tales about France
- browse properties for sale in France: primelocation.com
- buy or sell homes abroad
- Cadogan, my favorite guide about my new region, the Dordogne and the Périgord Vert
- everything you need to know about everywhere
- french entree ~ resource link for the languedoc region
- I found my real estate agent here
- le Moulin Neuf, Robert & Stuart's calming B&B retreat in the heart of the Dordogne
- newsletters from gay Pa-ree!
- slang of the week: MOODS! (talk french like the cool kids do.)
- Summary of my tips for choosing a mover, moving your pets and getting your visa/carte de sejour (ca. 2007)
- what the hell is *je ne regrette rien*, you ask?
best of Brantôme & surrounds
- about the village of Brantôme
- Au Fil de l'Eau restaurant
- Au Fil du Temps restaurant
- la récré gourmande
- le Bistrot St. Pierre
- les freres Charbonnel
- Moulin de l'Abbaye (Michelin star restaurant)
- Roda restaurant (Champagnac-de-Belair, 5 min from Brantome)
- the affordable Hotel Alienor
- Hotel Restaurant le Jardin des Chouchoux
- Rosé et Ciboulette restaurant (a favorite; fresh dishes fait maison)
blog archive.
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- like babe. only better.
- try and resist. go ahead, I dare ya!
- SEATTLE-ITES Support Your Fellow Blogger!
- follow-up.
- fearless friday.
- PORTLANDERS! Support your fellow blogger!
- returning to our irregular programming.
- WAKE UP AMERICA! Everything that needs to be said.
- bête de jour jones.
- for my SF bay area readers ...
- forgot to mention.
- what I did last night ... tales from the clumsy Am...
- what I'm doing tonight ...
- Voting from abroad -- simple tool for U.S. absente...
- are bloggers "real" writers?
- phenomenon DIVA JOOD takes the nation by storm.
- democratic veep nominee watch.
- interesting new (to me) vegetable.
- black widow blogger.
- franglais. or anglais en france.
- L'ennui-Melodieux insisted I share this with all o...
- this would be interesting, to say the least.
- guess who's coming to dinner?
- speaking of shameless self-promotion ...
- no autographs, please. and paparazzi to the rear.
- Sunday.
- note to self.
- angst.
- la cuisinière rustique.
- other things that have occupied me lately.
- Scenes from la marché a l'ancienne
- dedicated to all of you bleeding heart bug lovers.
- who's that blogger got her Neuf box?
- I'll buy it.
- I don't like spiders and snakes.
- first a roar, then a whine, at last a whimper.
- one step closer.
- je regrette.
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where was that...
une poésie écrite pour moi.
Air Born.
Is on a bridge above the clouds, is air born
Is Marie Marvingt in a biplane, humming Gnome spitting oil
Shuddering wires, the church spires
Bleriot looking up, his felt hat black
An ant, a speck of coal
They take your bags and scan them
You hire a car, this was the dream and now
You've simply gone too far to be lost in self doubt
There is only the impending, compelling, spinning propelling how
The distance leaves a wispy trail, the turning of the wheel
the Fata Morgana highway, cloudward on the Millau
And therefore you must go on, therefore you must
Embrace every moment, not like hired help checking coats
Not like the mud-locked fisherman staring though unknowing,
Envy-filled at a parade of powered boats,
But eyes full of sky.
-Jonathon Grimes
Is on a bridge above the clouds, is air born
Is Marie Marvingt in a biplane, humming Gnome spitting oil
Shuddering wires, the church spires
Bleriot looking up, his felt hat black
An ant, a speck of coal
They take your bags and scan them
You hire a car, this was the dream and now
You've simply gone too far to be lost in self doubt
There is only the impending, compelling, spinning propelling how
The distance leaves a wispy trail, the turning of the wheel
the Fata Morgana highway, cloudward on the Millau
And therefore you must go on, therefore you must
Embrace every moment, not like hired help checking coats
Not like the mud-locked fisherman staring though unknowing,
Envy-filled at a parade of powered boats,
But eyes full of sky.
-Jonathon Grimes
rencontrez mes héroïnes et héros
- Miller and Linda Fuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a dream of equality for all
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Visionary for a Poverty-Free World
- Kiva, Loans that Change Lives
- Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Nobel Laureate.
- Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist
11 comments:
So which demographic do you and Randal belong in? I think I am in the
"overeducated,unemployed, temporarily living with in-laws, but planning on buying a $5000- sofa democrats."
I'm in the "underemployed corporate dropouts over 40 lacking stoves, aligned with cheese eating French cowards and currently celibate though not by choice" segment.
RG will have to speak for himself.
I'm in the "own a successful children's art studio but is happily without children" segment. Can't wait to hear RG's.
When did I insist this or else? No matter. Knowing I have this power, I insist you wire me the money for plane tickets to France and a nice hotel for a few weeks. I need a vacation.
Let's see, I'd have to be in the "under 40 but inching closer, relatively educated but not enough to stave off naive delusions of being a poet and novelist who speaks atrocious French and is partially celibate because he pisses off his wife but it's not always his fault, honestly and would you kids shut the hell up already?" We're almost as important as soccer moms.
Okay, I confess RG didn't actually insist, well he didn't even request, in fact we never talked about it except in my head (I've named the political voice in my head RG but it sounds just like Jon Stewart) ... and the or else part well, that might have been "L'Ennui-Melodieux told me to do this. Or Elves.'
either way, it makes for an entertaining view, n'est pas?
and keep those segments coming ... it won't be worthy data till it surpasses 450.
Talk about leavin' me in the dust!
I'm simply not as quick or as funny as y'all but, truth be known, I'm in the "highly-unmotivated, under-employed, French-speaking, 'Law & Order' half-watching, blue-collar snob, trailer trash, slacker wannabe" demographic.
I loved that YouTube video!
I'm in the over sixty pot smoking bipolar feminist ex fashion model unpublished novelist working on a collection of poetry living in my garage and renting my house so I can buy my pot so I can keep writing demographic.
Thanks for waking me up so I could declare myself. God I wish I'd found this first. I was the only laugh today, unless you count South Park.
I'm thinking Frankenstein. If we combine all of our demographic features, though messy and bloody and the result will probably be a rampaging destroyer of worlds, think of the political clout we/it would have!
RG-I like the way you think! bwah-AHAH-ahahHA! "twirls fake mustache"
U.S.-we have crossover, maybe it is a whole new segment! glad to be of laugh assistance, now are you coming to dinner or what?
LaF-I could coin many phrases for you, but unmotivated wouldn't come to mind. But you DO sound like a democrat. whether you like it or not!
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