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A Beautiful Life – A Tragic Ending

A Beautiful Life – A Tragic Ending. Imagine my surprise when in the film MONUMENTS MEN, the camera focused on a particular Renoir painting in the Rothschild collection - one of which I was intensely...

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I’ve Fallen, and I can’t get up!”The life of a procrastinator, of a TKR.

Okay, well, the time has come. All my 2 years of walking, walking, walking like crazy in France, and even climbing mountains, has come to an end. Oh, I’ll walk again, but I can’t do it without TKR, or...

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Papillon is almost 1 year old, and almost didn’t live to see it

In a comedy of errors  – – today was a doozie…… I have had bad pains in my left backside – like my kidney area for a week now.  Bought a “ThermPack” heating wrap at CVS.   It is full of “cells” of iron...

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Would you move OVERSEAS for a job?

CNN Money make a good observation: http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/05/pf/working-abroad/index.html

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The Hare With Amber Eyes: Viktor and Emmy Ephrussi

The via The Hare With Amber Eyes: Viktor and Emmy Ephrussi.

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My Paris Style: SOS! I need an apartment

My Paris Style: SOS! I need an apartment. This link above will be able to provide those looking for long term apartments in Paris a better idea of what to expect.  

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Allergic to America: I Had to Move Away Because Life in the US Was Making Me...

I copy this wonderful article as I’m in my second week of the cold from hell, that doesn’t want to remove itself from my body.   I was never this sick when I lived away, but then, you know, as I know,...

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Sunset at the Louvre

Oh yes, I know, we have not been writing, (me, myself and I) and I hope you’ve missed me . (I’ve missed writing, that is for sure) But, I will repost something that is beautiful though not from me. And...

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A year ago tonight………

……….we were watching a movie at the Cinema in Nice which was the Jennifer Lawrence nominated film “Silver Linings Notebook”.   We came back to our IBIS hotel and caught the OSCARS just in time to see...

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A Year Ago Today – Trading “Climbing huge mountains to climbing ladders”

Just a few mementos of one of the happiest and most difficult days of our lives.  As, a year ago today, we climbed the Garlaban in Aubagne France and felt very very happy and proud that we were able to...

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