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The Year That Changed My Life
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know…say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.” – Rumi The holiday that I am celebrating today isn’t just...
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Champagne From Grape to Glass
The golden leaves around my house are reminding me of another golden hillside – Essoyes’ own golden vineyards of the special champagne grape. Last October I, along with the other students at the...
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7 x 7 Awards Go To…
On November the 20th, I received a very thoughtful nomination for the 7×7 Link Award by one very talented young man whose blog many of you may have had the pleasure of reading. So I thank you Arindam...
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Candle Lighter Award
Arindam has presented me with the Candle Lighter Award and there doesn’t appear to be specific rules or obligations other than the recognition of others whose blogs uplift and bring light to those on...
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French Keyboard
A friend and fellow writing class student has started a blog. Its address is http://travelingsardineclass.blogspot.com. Sometimes we jolt each others memories about something we experienced while in...
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Bonjour Paris
Today I received word that bonjourparis.com was publishing an article on Essoyes, France that I presented for review. I am extremely happy about this. Karen Fawcett and the contributors of this website...
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Studying Abroad
Six months ago I attended a writing workshop in France – ‘Writing from the Heart…in the Heart of Champagne’ – held twice a year by teacher, writer, and editor Janet Hulstrand. I had written for as long...
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A Surprise At the Biltmore House
As most of you know by now, I have a special kinship with French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir. It developed during a writing school I participated in at Essoyes, France where his wife was from....
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Essoyes and the Giant Machines
The town was nearly deserted – its few hundred residents away at school, work, or shopping in a distant village. Besides a small grocer, bakery, bank, butcher, pizzeria, art studios, tourist office,...
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I Ate A Renoir Apple
Not much had changed in Essoyes, France in the five years since I’d last been in the small village in L’Aube. But there was one addition: La Maison des Renoir, the Renoir Museum housed in his studio....
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