Paris: How I Talked about the Attacks with my French Students
Paris was attacked. And I teach French. I knew Monday morning, my students would ask, “Madame, what happened in France?” I knew I needed to address…
Highlight Vacations with Wows and Pows
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Whenever I travel…
France and Italy Travel Journal
“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the…
It’s Not Bastille Day. It’s Best Deal Day
I’m at t-minus two weeks to the end of the school year. This equals summer break for me, but it also means 14 days until my…
Happy Fourth of July!
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy Fourth of July! We’re heading to…
How To Draw the Eiffel Tower
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what…
Three Ways to Tie a Scarf
Happy Bastille Day! Coco Chanel said, “Dress shabbily and they notice the dress; dress impeccably and they notice the woman.” Chanel dressed to her personal…
