Tag: expatriate
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September 15, 2006 07:50 PM EDT --
"The White Countess", the last Merchant-Ivory film (2005), had tepid critical and commercial reaction. Its screenplay was written by by Kazuo Ishiguro, whose Booker Prize-winning novel "The . . . more
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January 06, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
Recently, I read a humorous article written by fellow Gatherite, John Philipp . His article, posted on Gather.com December 31st, is entitled Waiting in Line...a new approach . . . more
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June 18, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
No no no! Not me!
I work for a Japanese company and it is custom for Japanese people to come to the U.S. headquarters to work for 5 years and then they go back! Somebody in my department . . . more
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February 14, 2008 05:27 PM EST --
Before I head off to bed, I just had to post these two photos of beautiful Valentine's Day treats I saw in a pâtisserie window today in Vaison la Romaine, France.
Today . . . more
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February 15, 2006 10:10 PM EST --
for Jeannine Zenti
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I don't feel like talking (on the telephone).
I don't feel like listening (to others' problems.)
I don't feel like hanging out (and getting bored.)
I don't . . . more
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December 10, 2007 03:07 PM EST --
I originally fell in love with Kristin Espinasse's touching memoir, Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France , while standing in a Borders bookstore in . . . more
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January 27, 2008 04:59 PM EST --
R euniting after a brief time apart, two lovers embrace. "Tu m'as tellement manqué," (I've missed you so much.) she whispers. He leans in to kiss her. As they part, . . . more
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February 25, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
Printemps arrive! Here you see a spectacular yellow mimosa tree in bloom, as I see it on my daily . . . more
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March 03, 2008 02:57 PM EST --
Each time I have published an article on Gather, telling all of you about my life in this tiny provencial village, I receive messages and comments from my Gather friends, indicating they would like to . . . more
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March 15, 2008 10:50 PM EDT --
In past posts on my blog and on Gather, I've mentioned my Italian voisin, Armando .
It was with Armando and his family that we traveled to Italie and spent a whirlwind . . . more
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February 09, 2008 05:49 PM EST --
I t was a dark and stormy August night....ok, so maybe it wasn't stormy, but it was dark! So dark in fact, that we huddled together carrying flashlights. As we tiptoed through Monsieur Gonfalone's . . . more
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February 07, 2008 11:33 AM EST --
Tuesday was Mardi Gras , literally "fat Tuesday." This was the last day before le Carême ( Lent ) began: Forty days of wandering through the desert of introspection, with a hope . . . more
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February 08, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
For as densely populated as England is, it is largely rural, and in these rural parts animals outnumber humans. In our village, the sounds of cows, sheep and roosters are common, and occasionally we are . . . more
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February 10, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
When I relocated to the East Coast years ago, I was running away from everyone and everything I knew at that point in my life. I thought life wouldn't be as painful or severe in another city. I had . . . more
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February 21, 2008 12:05 PM EST --
A s I reported on Monday, Friday drew to a close with champagne, courtesy of Olivier, celebrating my birthday! We stayed the night in comfortable beachfront bungalows . . . more
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May 26, 2006 07:36 PM EDT --
The League has touched down in Central Europe. Four days ago, I arrived in Prague after a flight that stopped over in Frankfort. After two hours of trying to master the public transport system, I made . . . more
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January 11, 2008 08:07 AM EST --
One day this week, while I was surfing the net, I had the good fortune to discover a great recipe for Tarte à la Tomate , through a link on Kristin Espinasse's French Word a Day . . . more
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June 27, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
My best picks for 2006
9) Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons (Collins, anticipated publication March 2007)
Half how-to manual, half radical . . . more
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January 11, 2008 10:28 AM EST --
One day this week, while I was surfing the net, I had the good fortune to discover a great recipe for Tarte à la Tomate , through a link on Kristin Espinasse's French Word a Day . . . more
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May 24, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
Between the dark and the daylight,
When night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the children's hour.
A whisper and then a silence,
Yet I know by their . . . more
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