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Surviving a California Firestorm
October 22,1991: I’m standing at the top of Swainland Road in the Oakland Hills looking down at where my home stood yesterday morning.
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Visiting the renovated Cathedrale de Notre Dame
A lovely beginning for 2025
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Four and a half years after the book!!
A interview/podcast with a lovely interviewer, Danielle Richardson
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Today is Thanksgiving in the US but not in France
The big news today in Paris is that the dates for the reoopening of Cathedrale de Notre Dame (which many of you will remember burned in a horrendous…
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Sylvie Kauffmann, a former correspondent in Moscow and Washington and a member of Le Monde's editorial board, answers questions about…
and his impact on Europe
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An Ode
to the Democratic Party
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Finding Balance
of surgeries and life.
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