by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
ow that we’ve established that the kid is the boss in a foreign country, it’s time to see the things children get up to over there in France. First off, it was not easy. On the playground, French kids threw sand at my daughter, presumably because they asked her...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
illiam Wordsworth writes. “the child is father of the man.” While he means this in a philosophical way, any ex-pat who isn’t really in the know in the new country will discover that the child parents the adult. Nowhere is this more true than trying to...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
oulez-vous coucher avec moi? Non! I mean, veux-tu dîner chez moi? Do you want to come over for dinner? To dine with French people is an experience like no other. Why is that? you say. Food is food, right? People are people, right? Non and...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
ave you ever bought an avocado? Of course not! Come with me and you will see how an avocado ideally makes it into your kitchen. Facing several rows of neatly placed Haas avocados, I stand in line at Les Halles du Val d’Or, a vegetable stand on the shopping...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Moving is not really anything to write home about. Perhaps this is why Beckett says of his people in his play, Waiting for Godot, “they did not move.” AFTER: JUST LEAVING VERSAILLES, FRANCE Here are two pictures, one after a life lived in Versailles, and...