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France: What’s a Runaway Wife? How I decided to leave home, family and friends to end my life in France
Runaway Wife: After 40 years of making my living by writing and editing, I decided if this place I now call home is a good enough subject for the writers in Paris before me, I should give it a try.
Paris is Always Worth it: A Brief Parisian Autobiography in Three Parts—Part 3/3
Paris is Always Worth It: A Brief Parisian Autobiography in Three Parts by Samuel Lopez-Barrantes
Paris is Always Worth it – wherein a young writer begins to question just exactly what he’s doing in Paris – Part 2/3
Paris is always worth it but I was unmoored in Paris teaching English to bankers and insurance clerks.
Paris Is Always Worth It – Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light – Part 1/3
Paris Is Always Worth It - Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light is Part 1 of a (Brief) Parisian Autobiography by Samuél Lopez Barrantes
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Le Tignet – Life in our new village
Le Tignet: I vividly remember the first morning, the “coooo coooo co” of the tourterelles (turtledoves) to begin the day. Excitedly opening the wooden shutters, the first light revealed a magnificent sky, a canvas streaked with deep orange, yellow, and red feathery wisps behind the clouds.
How Learning French is like Learning to Ski — Part 2
Learning from your mistakes. This is easy enough to take when you just get a little ding and lose a heart from Duolingo, but sounding stupid while speaking to a real live person is another matter. It is without question my biggest weakness when learning a language.
How learning French is like learning to ski – Part 1
Learning French and learning to ski: they're the same really, or are they - ha!
WWII Female Agents Behind Enemy Lines – Part 1
Violette Szabo and other female agents were sent to France by F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. F Section (French Section), part of SOE, set up as a clandestine organization “to set Europe ablaze”, as Winston Churchill once said.