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A-Culturated

(Not) The World’s Best Coffee Maker

What happened when I failed to explain our complicated European appliances to our American houseguests

4 min read6 days ago

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Coffee beans falling into a grinder

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Crow’s Feet

Navigating Your Couple Through Retirement

Keeping the spark alive—retirement doesn’t need to be the end of your romance

5 min readMay 19, 2024

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Photo of a man kissing a woman who’s wearing a hat and has her eyes closed.

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A-Culturated

Do You Ever Jump to Conclusions Without Knowing What’s Really Going On?

What we have here is a failure to communicate

4 min readMay 2, 2024

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Young woman with a cross expression on her face.

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Travel Memoirs

Reliving French History, a Biteful At a Time

Dien Bien Phu is a place where no tourists ever go

6 min readApr 22, 2024

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Painting of Vietnamese people carrying weapons over the mountains to Dien Bien Phu.

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Crow’s Feet

Are the 70s When Your Health Goes South?

Cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes…oh my

3 min readApr 18, 2024

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Two women sitting in a doctor’s office talking.

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Fiction Shorts

Springtime on the Champs de Mars

Paris is getting ready for the Olympics

1 min readApr 16, 2024

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Picture of the Eiffel Tower with the grassy Champs de Mars around it.

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A-Culturated

‘Faux Amis’ (False Friends) in France

How I inadvertently announced that I was going ‘commando’

4 min readApr 9, 2024

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People shopping at an outdoor market in a small town in France.

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The Narrative Arc

Who’s Afraid of Snakes?

Traumatic childhood memories have a way of popping up when you least expect them

4 min readApr 3, 2024

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Photo of European adder snake in the grass

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Imogene’s Notebook

I Feel Like I’m Getting Lighter

Surviving the dark days of winter in Paris

3 min readMar 23, 2024

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People crowded together on a narrow street with umbrellas.

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Middle-Pause

Do You Really Need More Clothes?

Or do you just want something new to you?

3 min readMar 17, 2024

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Women looking for clothes in a trunk

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Kit Desjacques

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Reader, writer, traveler. Glad to be alive in the age of internet so I can look up answers to everything I'm curious about.

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