Color-filled side street in a visit to the old city of Montpellier Our move to Montpellier, France was not a decision I was immediately enthralled with. It has been almost 20 years since Randy and I first left Miami where we grew up. There is a popular expression that Miami is not Florida. Aside from … Continue reading Making Ourselves at Home Again
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Awkward and Adrift in Sud de France
Charming side street in Montferrier-sur-Lez We drive around the Occitane region of France, alongside the acres of vineyards that line the landscape with the mountain of Pic Saint-Loup serving as its backdrop. Montpellier and its surrounding areas is situated in the Herault Department within the greater Occitane. Here viticulture is part of its heritage -- … Continue reading Awkward and Adrift in Sud de France
FROM SCRATCH
Daily fresh bread from scratch is part of France's cultural hallmark Patience. Flexibility. Understanding. Melatonin. This is what I have discovered will get me through a time of compounded uncertainty circled in quiet anxiety. Our current instability means no car, no home, no school and no schedule of any sort. Add France’s famed bureaucratic process … Continue reading FROM SCRATCH
In Pursuit of Joie de Vivre
OFF WE GO LEAVING MIAMI ON AIR FRANCE WITH 25 PASSENGERS ON BOARD, November 3, 2020 (Election Day) How to really push yourself out of your comfort zone in your middle age when life is supposed to be a steady rhythm of predictable expectations? Move to another country. With your whole family. Not understanding the … Continue reading In Pursuit of Joie de Vivre
Can your Children Inherit your Cultural DNA?
I am unsure how most Americans outside of the constraints of the Cuban community in Miami grew up as children in the 1970s and 80s. For one, I educated myself much later on the cultural icons of those times such as Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, and James Taylor whereas for my husband, it was part … Continue reading Can your Children Inherit your Cultural DNA?
Getting Children to Eat Healthy is Not for the Faint of Heart
Parents are in a constant state of worry over the health of their children. Whether its the small cold that appears out of nowhere or an abrupt fall, parents are always on edge about their kids' well-being. If you are like me, I shrug it off if does not appear to be alarming or worthy … Continue reading Getting Children to Eat Healthy is Not for the Faint of Heart
Why I Can’t Predict the Future for My Potential Employers
My lack of recent blog entries were complicated by a bout with a pesky stomach bug that had me hugging the toilet for nearly five days in a row. Eight pounds less later, I emerged scared to eat anything and with little energy to string together thoughts let alone sentences. I will deprive you of … Continue reading Why I Can’t Predict the Future for My Potential Employers
The Battle of the Purge
Sitting down in the family room, I survey a three-foot replica of a Star Wars X-Wing fighter ship; a kiddie kitchen complete with an attached BBQ grill and plastic food accessories; a mini scooter; a container filled with rubber balls, foam sticks, golf clubs, hockey sticks; a tike size basketball hoop; a bin filled with … Continue reading The Battle of the Purge
Sorry people…my kids are not circus trained animals
That's what I sometimes want to say out loud to others when my almost 3 year-old and 7 year-old sons conduct themselves in a manner fitting for well, a toddler and a first grader. I so wish at times my kids display church worthy demeanor at let's say a doctor's office, the public library, the … Continue reading Sorry people…my kids are not circus trained animals