The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?” Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden For years I dreamt of a ...

"It begins in the imaginations of the people who built it and is gradually transformed, for better and for worse, by the people who occ...

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore the sisters should be occupied at certain times in manual labor, and again at fixed hours...

Every Wednesday I leave the house around 11:30 and walk over to my church, St. Elisabeth de Hongrie, for the 12:05 Mass.  In my purse I have...

Versailles is so much more than that gaudy gilded monstrosity at the other end of of town.  Take the road from my house to the Montreuil tra...

Mail and quite a few hits in response to my posts about our Godin wood stove. Here is the story - all the posts I wrote last year about it...

Let's change channels, folks, and move on to more interesting topics. Starting earlier this week and continuing over the weekend is ...

Last Thursday the younger Frenchling and I made our way to the Versailles castle for what turned out to be an extraordinary evening. Les...

The younger Frenchling and I made a deal this morning after I came home from mass.  She has one week of vacation left and I have one week be...