A Homeschool Story

Iowa to France and Back Again

Monday, December 25, 2023

Noël Letter

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  Cher/Dear Ami(e)/Friend, It is Christmas morning, le matin de Noël in France, and all is quiet and doux. The title to "Silent Nig...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Confessions of (Hating) a French Wedding

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  Dah-dum-dum-dum (here comes the bride)...wrong song for France. It was in fact, "We were in Paris, to get away from your parents,...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

A Day or Two in the Life (of a French Court Interpreter)

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    It has been a week of work and drives. No, it has been two weeks of working and driving. No wonder I am feeling fresh as a May daffodil....
Friday, February 17, 2023

The Spill/Steal Zone of Knitting and Life

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Sometimes you care and sometimes you just don't. When knitters cast on a new knitting project, we exist in a dream zone, a lull in time,...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Note to All: BUY A FLASHLIGHT: Four-months Post-op, Still Clumsy

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Because, even though you have counted yourself lucky not to have ever done this up thus far in your life, miraculously, (what are our chance...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Syllabus has Been Approved, Rejoice and Enjoy

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What began as a "sure, it might be great to share what I know with local students," soon became, "wait, what have I gotten my...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Conferences and Conventions and INVENTIONS, in Salt Lake and Vegas

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This is from a post begun months ago. I could not quite conceive of how to begin to suddenly write about the profession of interpreting on m...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

A Hot Day at the Seaside

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Landlocked no more! I am on a beach, sand under my feet, with the water within reach, salt droplets spraying my face once again. It is unwor...

Movement During Surgery Recovery and EDS: Chapter Two: Why We Did It/Skin Care/What to Wear with a Cast on Your Arm

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"We" includes a team; the one with the condition or injury, the ones suffering because of the injury (affected and affected's ...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

Call the Interpreter Tales

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Now offering a new series on where life as a French-speaker and an interpreter might take you. One of my friends joked it could be named ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

A Super-Bendy (Hypermobile/EDS) Recovers From Joint-Replacement Surgery; Chapter One

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This is, in fact, Day Seven Post-op of having a joint replaced in the left wrist, or an arthoplasty CMC . ***If you cannot abide reading med...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

I Took a Nap and a Drive: A French Afternoon on Vacation…or La Farniente, Almost

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There is life after lunch. Right after we’ve had a nice nap to recover from lunch. Which is after the hour of coffee-drinking in the shade...
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This is my chronicle of pursuing knowledge, balance, nature in our lives, a Waldorf education, good food, wisdom and laughter, with my five kids and French husband, here, along the banks of the Mississippi and in France.
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