Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve took a few days off to enjoy the holidays. While I usually leave up my decorations until New Year’s Day, I felt like putting them away the day after Christmas.  Perhaps the warmer weather is to blame or just the urge to declutter before it’s time to get back […]

I was thinking about creating a French word of the week post while I’m in Paris.  One good word to start with might be mas which means farmhouse. Except in the case of the mas in this post, I don’t think most farmhouses are renovated for five years and have gardens designed by landscape designer […]