Sarah_in_USA
- Location
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Birthday
- October 27
- Title
- Educational Director
- Company
- Alliance Francaise de Washington
- Bio
- 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 COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Hells
Bells!”
October 18, 2009 07:39PM - “I had a shock myself
when I saw she was back...
It's like
zombies, they always
co…”
October 18, 2009 02:00PM - “The first exercise is
always the toughest.”
October 18, 2009 10:09AM - “Noises that lull my
heart...”
October 11, 2009 09:31AM - “Thanks Alan, I had a
great laugh today!
I
saw so many mistakes while
translating,…”
October 10, 2009 07:31PM
Sarah_in_USA's Links
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 »
NOISES
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…
Le canapé rouge, par Michèle Lesbre: un livre vide et ennuyeux
A Poem on Growing Old: Little Old Ladies
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 »
District 9 - The Movie, or the Mother of Metaphors on Xenophobia and Racism
Elfriede Jelinek, ou le mythe autrichien ébranlé

The Meaning of Option... Public Optional Healthcare
Option means optional, for those out there who do NOT understand
English... Or maybe they are ready to pay for my son's
monthly $1,100.00 medical bill???
Sometimes I wonder about the Machiavellic genius of right-wingers
who manipulate crowds, in order to scare the #%! out of them, and
make them… Read full post »
Summer Strolls
4th of July : What It Means To The Frenchie That I Am
The first ever Independence Day Parade I attended was the one organized in my previous neighborhood, 13 years ago, by a woman called Martha, who was -and probably still is- a fierce militant activist against anything and for everything. At the time, I did not understand while some neighbors were teas… Read full post »
De l'Art du Dialogue
This is a post I published on my other blog :
http://sarahdiligenti-thequillandthebrush.blogspot.com/
I have just updated it and always wondered why the Import button never worked when I tried to import it on OS....
Parmi les livres que j’ai lus récemment, il en est qua… Read full post »
I Hate Mother's Day
The thing with Mother’s Day is that it is only for Mothers. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I too am a mother, although probably not a very good one, not one of the “hovering-helicopter-mother” team, not a baking-cookie type of Mom, not a girly-girl one either. When I… Read full post »
I Am Not My Mother (Part 1)
I am not my mother.
My mother was the youngest of her family, and the only girl. Her birth was celebrated as a family miracle, although if a miracle there was, it was that she survived and that my grandmother survived. My mother was born alive and whole, which had not… Read full post »
L'amertume de l'exil: Andrei Makine

Inventory in the Style of and in Homage to Dame Sei Shonagon
Dame Sei Shonagon is a Japanese author and woman of letters whose writings wrote around the year 1000 are considered to be a major component of Japanese literature. The Pillow Book is a mishmash text, a collection of lists, poems, complaints and observations written while Shon… Read full post »
Inventaire à la manière de et en hommage à Sei Shonagon
10 Annoying and 10 Beloved Make For A Single List Of Quotes
Sentences and blurbs thereof I'd love never to hear again:
1. Stone the crows!
2. I don't know about you but I....
3. Like, like, like...... (Like a Virgin, by Madonna, is the exception.)
4. It's not you, it's me.
5. Duh!
6. Listen... (Nothing good comes after that slow-almost-spelled… Read full post »
STOP BELITTLING ME!
If it goes on, I will leave OS and will miss my dear friends: Kalpana, Moana, Caveat Canem Croceum, Harry Homeless, Critical Mess, Dangosteen, that I read as soon as they post, and others whom I have not made "friends" with, but that I read nonetheless for their style, and their… Read full post »
Girl's Scout Cookies: The Craze, the Dilemma and the Verdict
March is back and I feel assaulted
every time I go grocery-shopping. Right outside the main entrance
of my local Giant’s, weekend after weekend, high-pitched Girl
Scouts try their hardest to convince me and the other weekend
shoppers to buy their cookies…or else… Read full post »
I Did Not Know I Was An Addict Until...
I did not know I was an addict until I went on a family
Caribbean vacation the week before Christmas 2000.
Preparing for the weeklong deserved break from frantic holiday
shopping and cooking, I decided to bring three good books to read
along. I had visions of lazy days on sandy beaches, … Read full post »
Is There Such A Thing As A Favorite Movie Of All Time?
The question is a challenge: geez, how will I be able to scan my brain and sort through reminiscences of all the movies I have seen in my life (hundreds!) and choose, elect, or crown one as My Favorite Movie Of All Time? At this point in my personal brain-storming, the question… Read full post »
Quand ma patience est mise à l'épreuve... Syngue Sabour Pierre de Patience, Goncourt 2008...
A Star Is Born: Lena Seikaly's Debut At The Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage

A Racist Cartoon Take on the Super Bowl?
Is it me only or is this comic strip somehow "racist"? The simple fact that the White jock (and the White explorers) wonder about who on Earth could not care about the Super Bowl, to then show an "exotic" tribe with their home-made satellite connection... looks like 1930s comics, with… Read full post »
OOPS... He Did It Again!
Some amongst you, I'm sure, will end up thinking I am on a personal crusade, or vendetta, against Pope Benedict XVI, or the Roman Catholic Church at large. To be honest, sometimes I wonder myself... However, it did not used to be so. I am all in favor of Coexistence of… Read full post »
Mytho et Megalo, Sego!
Ségolène Royal, c'est la grenouille qui voulait
être aussi grosse que le bœuf!
Non seulement, l'équipe d'Obama ne s'est pas inspirée
d'elle, mais en Française ayant la mémoire courte,
c'est elle qui oublie qu'elle s'est inspirée d'un
mouveme… Read full post »
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