I WROTE A small piece for a journal in the United Sattes called  Spectrum Magazine .  Article is on their blog right now if you are interes...

OUR YOUNGEST IS still enjoying his time playing for the youth club of Les Aigles de Nice -- the Division 1 pro hockey team.  The club now h...

ABOUT A MONTH ago I posted a little blurb (a link to it here) which included a photo of our current house and a short explanation about how...

IF GIVEN THE option, my kids still prefer to read in English.  My daughter in particular is somewhat averse to reading in French -- somet...

WHEN IT COMES to education, Europeans just know how to "do" languages.  I know all the reasons why: lots of countries close t...

ONE OF THE best things about having a blog archive is seeing all those photos years later.  With that in mind, it's time to catch up on...

IN SEPTEMBER OF 2007 , just a few weeks after we arrived in France, I put up a post titled  Some Things that will Take Getting Used To  and ...

FOR THE FIRST  time since our move to France, we no longer live in the village of Le Rouret.  Because the owner of the house we have been in...

THIS MORNING I took our car in for a follow-up 'controle-technique' visit and headed over to the Cafe Du Cycliste here in Chateaun...

TIME TO GET this up and going again, if only to help us chronicle our years in France.  As you can see, "for a while" has turned ...

Maybe.  We'll see how it goes.

OK, so quite a while between posts.  Quick photo from this afternoon at the Gorges du Verdun.    Gorges du Verdun, December 2012 ...

1991 VW GOLF GTI -- bought it for a couple thousand Euros a few months after we arrived in France.  Still going...

IT'S BAC GRADING and examination season and that means 6-7 days in Paris (not a terrible thing, for sure).  Each year the coordinatin...

WE CANNOT DESCRIBE how lucky we have been to live in this house for the past few years.  We found it on a summer-rental web site and I re...

AS WE GET ready for what is now a routine -- getting ready to get our of our house for the summer -- I decided to upload some photos from p...

ONE OF THE  highlights of our little French Adventure is the many visits we have had from friends and family.  Just last month our house wa...

ONE OF THE other parents forwarded this photo which shows both Nice hockey teams playing -- the Under 10 team on the left and Under 8 team ...

IT'S PRETTY COOL.  This weekend Henry's hockey team participated in the 6th Annual (yes, they've had that many) 10-and-Under h...

DURING OUR LITTLE Cup of Coffee Road Trip last Christmas break we started talking about the kinds of things that happen during the course ...