To my anglophone friends (en français plus bas !!)… This morning I had an encounter that served as a kind of wake-up call. I met a woman at the American Church who expressed surprise that I had never thanked her personally for the donation she made to help me meet my medical expenses while I [...]
It’s June! Or at least that’s what they say… It’s still too cold sometimes to really believe that it’s spring, and going to be summer in a matter of days. But nature is doing its best to move things along: in-between the cold spells there are some real June days, hot and sticky… In general, [...]
Hi, all! I posted these on Facebook, but I realize that I have a few friends who are NOT on FB… Thank goodness, as you’re the ones (mostly) who keep me writing in this thing!! These are a few of the photos I took during a 5-day stay in Ireland a couple of weeks ago. [...]
Last summer, at Middlebury, one of the bilingual assistants did a profile of me for the French School Gazette (he takes turns interviewing people, and the fact that I was Cambodian almost-road-kill apparently made me an interesting subject.) But something about that interview has been nagging at me all year I was asked “What is [...]
Retrospectives and Resolutions This seems like a good time to make another blog post, especially as I have more pressing things to do, and doing the least important things first appears to be my modus operandus… One year ago today David and I were in the Franco-Vietnamese hospital, in Saigon, feeling both exhilarated to be [...]
All right, so now I’m – very slowly – getting back into the swing. I feel more and more like sharing what’s been going on, but for the moment most of it is uninteresting, and the interesting parts are kind of bizarre. I’ll need more time, and a sense of distance from what I’ve been [...]
This tiny post is just to say that I owe you better… than a whiny paragraph or two. A real blog post is forming in my mind, but it’s taking its time, just as all of my equilibrium is taking its ever-lovin’ time to manifest itself once more. My fuzzy head is rising out of [...]
Because I have been in a state of attempted concatenation for the past four months. Not quite half a gestation period, but long enough to realize that attempting to concatenate is not all that pleasant. Everything is up in the air, and I will write some more another day. It’s enough that I am writing [...]
This weekend marks a special holiday, one that I was privileged to see celebrated last year in Phnom Penh. No, I’m not talking about Halloween (although I will certainly be celebrating that tomorrow evening in the Perche) but about the Cambodian Water Festival, or “Bon Om Touk.” Last November I was torn. Should I go [...]
The Falling Leaves. Falling is a noun, Leaves is a verb. The struggle of adapting to a new life in Paris is giving way to a tentative sense of relief that I’m actually able to… adapt. At almost 50, it’s somewhat daunting to have to make such drastic changes in lifestyle. I suddenly have more [...]
