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Although we lived in the North, my family maintained property in both Mississippi and Alabama for generations. My mother’s family originates in Alabama and my Dad’s family, Mississippi. Although my two brothers and I were born and rais… Read full post »

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So, today I ran across this headline:

"CANNES FILM FESTIVAL SLAMMED BY FEMINIST GROUP LA BARBE FOR EXCLUDING WOMEN DIRECTORS"

(The feminist group La Barbe which started several years ago in response to the sexist media treatment of Segolene Royal in her… Read full post »

‘What’s the matter, Martin? You seem very agitated.’ asked Harry Belafonte.

 ‘Well, I am, because I’ve come upon a thought that I don’t know how to deal with at this moment.’, Martin Luther King Jr. replied.

‘Well, what is it… Read full post »

This time courtesy of the Swedes...

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/clitoridectomy-cake

This leaves me speechless to say the least..

 Well...not really

Sometimes the public can become so bogged down with concepts of racism that it can miss the… Read full post »

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Hello Americans everywhere....

Do you get this family connection?

Not Yet?

Okay...I'l get back to you at a later date!

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Regardless of who wins in the Republican primary,  I wonder what kind of curve-ball reaction there would be if he would chose either Condoleezza Rice

or some one like Angela McGlowan as a running mate?

No…I’m not a devil’s advocate.   I just found 201… Read full post »

Charles Caleb Colton (1782-1832) was an English cleric, author and art collector who was also well known for his eccentricities.  The quote, “Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has been attributed to this gentleman.

Menorah

The menorah is described/… Read full post »

Let me pick up where I left off…

Now, when there are two paychecks in a household a family unit might develop an erroneously inflated sense of economic worth. Suddenly the family finds that they are paying outrageous prices for small, often unnecessary things. The… Read full post »

"Get that guy out of our organization!"

~unknown

"Get that guy out of our organization!" ~unknown

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Being far, far away and all,  surrounded by EU madness, I am completely baffled by what this Occupy Wall Street Movement in the States is really about.

I’ve been wondering, though, if perhaps the brochure below, from the Wall Street Language Institute, may be at the heart of the… Read full post »

First let me emphasize the fact that I neither designed this Tee Shirt nor coined this phase. Nevertheless, it brings up the topic of why there are such troubling conditions and conflicts in the European Union.

For those of you who don’t know, the… Read full post »

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Just finished reading the debut novel of Korean American author ,Y. Euny Hong. It had me in stitches…as they say. I highly recommend it...a cautionary tale...especially to recent University graduates.

Then I ran across the German translation.   As you can see,… Read full post »

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I realize that this is October 11th…an entire month after most  have posted their remembrance of 9/11. Finally here is mine.

So sorry about running late!

We had already been living in France, in Villefranche Sur Mer, for over two years on that fateful day when we wer… Read full post »

 photo by: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Why is Jimmy Laughing?

And why do Barack and George Jr. appear to have been separated at birth? Read full post »

L'Art du Graffiti, Monaco

ie: "That's whack! "

No way. It's not whack, people...actually it's ***do… Read full post »

 Sometimes I feel that someone has vandalized the culture of the English language, spray painted all over it. Just trampled rough shod all over the beauty, nuances and melodies of our words and expressions. Or ... perhaps I've just been romantically involved...cohabitating... with this seductive… Read full post »

The 2,000,000th  reason I fled the country!

Why are photos like this circulating?  It’s not as if I’m lacking in a sense of humor; it’s just that I don’t understand the basis of this joke. 

During my University years, I had a… Read full post »

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So, yesterday I finished reading Whoopie Goldberg’s book, Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out there?

This, to me, was a hilarious book which basically implied that the United States has become a nation of arrogant and smug Philistines! 

 I would like to share with y… Read full post »

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Books Concerning the "mystique" of French Women:

First , I would like to emphasize that this Post is targeted specifically to American women in France, and those looking to live in… Read full post »

cartoon by David Horsey, 2009

 As a long-time expat in France, I need to pose several unanswered questions which have been causing me some sleepless nights, lately: 

1)       When some groups of people demand that they inte… Read full post »