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Sarah_in_USA
- Location
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Birthday
- October 27
- Bio
- Former Educational Director at the Allliance Francaise de Washington (DC), in the US since 1995 and loving it.
Writer (in French and English): poetry, prose and blogs.
Founder of "Avid Readers in DC: a book club aiming at introducing American Literature to the French expat community.
MY RECENT POSTS
- A Literary Treatment of
Russia, Part 2
June 12, 2011 12:36PM - A Literary Treatment of
Russia: Part One
February 28, 2011 12:25AM - Flowers of Evil
January 15, 2011 01:43PM - Ecological Epiphany
January 04, 2011 11:17PM - The King's Speech... A Review
of an Oscar Material Movie!
January 02, 2011 07:02PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Love your post. Like
youo I was getting redder by
the year,
but after skin
cancer…”
January 15, 2011 07:09PM - “Striking and to the
point.”
January 15, 2011 07:04PM - “Hello
Cymraeg,
Thanks for
your comment. I understand
what you mean. I have
known
f…”
January 04, 2011 09:07AM - “Thanks, Henry
R!
Bikers are really
truly great!”
October 06, 2010 07:27PM - “@ Kathy Riordan: I read
the New York Times before
reading
your blog on Helen
Thom…”
June 08, 2010 10:00PM
Sarah_in_USA's Links
JUNE 12, 2011 12:36PM
A Literary Treatment of Russia, Part 2
Beyond the Romanov tragedy and beyond the Soviet Union itself,
“the Great Patriotic War†as
Russians call World War 2, remains –to this
day- at the core of Russianness. Every time the Motherland is in
danger, Russians stand as one man and Staline even called back
those whom he had not…
FEBRUARY 28, 2011 12:25AM
A Literary Treatment of Russia: Part One
Russia has fascinated writers from times immemorial.
Voltaire exchanged quite a copious correspondence with Catherine the Great, whom he called the “Semiramis of the North†and whose authoritarian style he celebrated as much as he admired her war on the Turks.
The Marquis de Custine, a French a…
Voltaire exchanged quite a copious correspondence with Catherine the Great, whom he called the “Semiramis of the North†and whose authoritarian style he celebrated as much as he admired her war on the Turks.
JANUARY 15, 2011 1:43PM
Flowers of Evil
Baudelaire could not have imagined that I would steal the
title of his majestic and wonderful poetry book to write about one
of my pet peeves.
Flowers of Evil bother me. To the point of repulsion. I have goose bumps, my skin crawls back, nausea invades me, I cannot breathe and sometimes… Read full post »
Flowers of Evil bother me. To the point of repulsion. I have goose bumps, my skin crawls back, nausea invades me, I cannot breathe and sometimes… Read full post »
JANUARY 4, 2011 11:17PM
Ecological Epiphany
It takes time to understand the core meaning of this sentence. Of course witty Voltaire did not mean it for us to literally dig and plant and weed and harvest our garden, nor did he encourage us to live off the fat of the land./…
JANUARY 2, 2011 7:02PM
The King's Speech... A Review of an Oscar Material Movie!
The most important moment in the movie com/…
JANUARY 1, 2011 12:24PM
RESOLUTIONS
On this, the first day of Anno Domini 2011:
Resolve in no other order than what comes first to my brain:
- To look at life through a pink lense always and forever
- To get my invalidating lumbar spinal stenosis and left knee sorted out
- To run again even if…
Resolve in no other order than what comes first to my brain:
- To look at life through a pink lense always and forever
- To get my invalidating lumbar spinal stenosis and left knee sorted out
- To run again even if…
DECEMBER 1, 2010 5:11PM
L'Angoisse du Lecteur
Non, ce n’est pas le titre
d’un roman… Tout le monde
a entendu parler de la fameuse “angoisse de la
page blanche†qui atteint
l’écrivaillon comme
l’auteur le plus
prolifique… Ce rectangle blanc et qui le
demeure alors que l’inspiration fuit, la muse
s’amuse, et la peur
s’instal…
NOVEMBER 24, 2010 1:01AM
Une generation au cerveau branche differemment: resultat de l'ere numerique?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?hpw
Comme toujours, un article excellent du New York Times sur la manière dont le cerveau des nouvelles générations est « branché » différemment (ou le sera tôt ou tard) en raison de leur appartenance à l’ère du « numérique »./…
Comme toujours, un article excellent du New York Times sur la manière dont le cerveau des nouvelles générations est « branché » différemment (ou le sera tôt ou tard) en raison de leur appartenance à l’ère du « numérique »./…
NOVEMBER 16, 2010 9:47AM
Quadrature du Cercle au Moyen-Orient
Edito du quotidien Le Monde ce matin sur la fragilité
de la monarchie jordanienne qui rejoint un edito du New
York Times que j'ai lu hier soir sur ce traître de
Nasrallah et les obstacles que met le Hezbollah à une
enquête approfondie sur la mort d'Hariri:
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/a… Read full post »
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/a… Read full post »
OCTOBER 24, 2010 8:58PM
From the NYTimes: In the Mideast, No Politics, but God's
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/weekinreview/24shadid.html
Interesting article and analysis as always in the New York Times: So the fall of Nasser was the start of rising fundamentalism in the Muslim world.
Gone are the dreams of an "Arab nation" who would include all Muslim sects and the Christ/…
Interesting article and analysis as always in the New York Times: So the fall of Nasser was the start of rising fundamentalism in the Muslim world.
Gone are the dreams of an "Arab nation" who would include all Muslim sects and the Christ/…
OCTOBER 11, 2010 7:30PM
Mean Girls: It Starts Younger... Very Scary!
This New York Times article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10Cultural.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me
rightly claims that some Moms are responsible for their daughters' meanness, based on the fact that if their daughters are showing such signs, it is becau…
rightly claims that some Moms are responsible for their daughters' meanness, based on the fact that if their daughters are showing such signs, it is becau…
OCTOBER 6, 2010 10:31AM
Bikers to the Rescue: an Act of Love & Respect
On Monday, I was driving back from a work trip to ... Costco in
Arlington. At the Lincoln Memorial, cars were stopped to let a
funeral drive by going towards Arlington Memorial Cemetery. I was
very impressed: ahead of the funeral procession, bikers on their
Harley were leading the hearse and…
JUNE 7, 2010 10:27PM
Censorship & Helen Thomas: The Other Side of Reporting
Brian Stelter's is the first article I am reading on the subject of Helen Thomas' resignation/firing, not that I have not looked for more, and not that I have not heard about it on the r… Read full post »
MAY 15, 2010 11:26PM
A New Voice In The Sphere of Child-Rearing Books: Reina Weiner's Book
MARCH 2, 2010 4:25PM
Winter Readings
What else to do when snow hits as hard as it did since December 19, but read even more? Cuddled under my many blankets and even with a flashlight when I lost power, I turned many pages during this long and never-ending winter. As I write this review, snow still muffles… Read full post »
JANUARY 5, 2010 4:32PM
No Need for Architectural Dilemnas in European Landscapes
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/world/europe/05france.html?ref=global-home
The one who must be laughing in his grave is none other than Josef Stalin. He destroyed churches by either erasing them totally, transforming them into swimming-pools, youth centers, museums, hay lofts, pigsties, etc. In Eur… Read full post »
JANUARY 3, 2010 10:48PM
Iranian Woman on Cruel Islam
This is a very moving interview of an Iranian woman who was
jailed for 3 years for having refused to wear the head scarf. She
was beaten, raped, her leg was broken, the other wounded and left
to become infected.
In Europe, left-wingers are demonstrating alongside fundamentalist
Muslims to demand that/
NOVEMBER 24, 2009 11:33PM
Fall Fireworks
A first Sunny Sunday Walk in October, at The Madeira School, close to Great Falls, VA, provided me with pictures of leaves floating, of ponds that Manet would not have denied, and of a camouflaged frog.
NOVEMBER 6, 2009 4:28PM
La chronique de Gérard Collard - Les prix littéraires
Enfin, quelqu'un qui ose dire la vérité sur la magouille des milieux littéraires parisiens.
OCTOBER 18, 2009 12:53AM
Finding GrandMa Dead
My father’s mother, Mamie as I used to call her, never was very affectionate with me. It was said that her favorite granddaughter was the youngest of her son’s numerous children through multiple marriages, because that last one had been named after her.
I still see her standing like the S… Read full post »
OCTOBER 10, 2009 9:06PM
NOISES
Cat purring right by my face at night;
the MGM lion roaring;
the rain on a hot summer night, windows open;
Russian Easter Bells -once you've heard them, all other bells are but "noisy gongs";
wind chimes;
the wind in the trees, shaking their summits when it is really…
the MGM lion roaring;
the rain on a hot summer night, windows open;
Russian Easter Bells -once you've heard them, all other bells are but "noisy gongs";
wind chimes;
the wind in the trees, shaking their summits when it is really…
OCTOBER 10, 2009 11:08AM
Le canapé rouge, par Michèle Lesbre: un livre vide et ennuyeux
Un monologue prétendant être un dialogue
entre la narratrice, Anne, et une vieille dame excentrique,
Clémence Barrot (est-ce un clin
d’oeil même involontaire
à Clément Marrot?), voilà ce
qu’est
Le canapé rouge, de
Michèle Lesbre… 138 pages
d’introspection entre Moscou et Irkoutsk, en…
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 10:05PM
A Poem on Growing Old: Little Old Ladies
In Memoriam Stephanie Auspitz....
This poem of mine was published a few years ago in an
anthology.
Little old ladies with pink ribbons in their hair,
soft, blushed, pink cheeks that smell of violet powder
when you hug and kiss them, and pretend they will
not die nor disappear in their little blue/… Read full post »
soft, blushed, pink cheeks that smell of violet powder
when you hug and kiss them, and pretend they will
not die nor disappear in their little blue/… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009 7:10PM
District 9 - The Movie, or the Mother of Metaphors on Xenophobia and Racism
Originally a movie based on real events that took place in South
Africa (District 6 in Cape Town was declared a White-Only area in
1966 and forced removals and evictions started in 1968. By 1982,
more than 60,000 persons had been relocated 25 km from District 6
and all standing buildings…
AUGUST 24, 2009 10:36PM
Elfriede Jelinek, ou le mythe autrichien ébranlé
Briseuse de rêves ou artiste accomplie? Telle est
la question que je me pose à la fin de
l’été,
après la lecture de plusieurs romans du Prix Nobel de
Littérature 2004, l’Autrichienne
Elfriede Jelinek.
Si tout comme moi, vous gardiez de
l’Autriche une vision aseptisée,
de bonbonniÃ… Read full post »
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