Recipes
Ah, winter! The most wonderful time of the year. Freezing temperatures, bare trees, clouded skies, sparkling snow flurries… okay, so the flurries...
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Recipes
The Classic A&W Root Beer Float For a sweet, refreshing treat straight from the States, nothing beats a good old-fashioned root beer float....
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Living in France
Independence Day (July 4th) has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870 (although it was celebrated even before then). It celebrates...
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Recipes
Cookies? Or bars? Why decide? Allow us to introduce you to the love child of Mr. Cookie and Mrs. Bar, the Magic Cookie Bar... We think it will be the...
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French Culture
With spring underway (even if the weather Gods don't appear to have gotten the memo) and the summer holidays just months away, we're being bombarded...
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Recipes
In the U.S. we like our holidays like we like our fountain sodas...BIG! Even those holidays which may or may not even directly apply to us are...
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Raising Bicultural Kids
An Easter celebration just doesn’t seem complete without an evening spent dyeing Easter eggs in preparation for the Easter Bunny’s arrival. As a...
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Living in France
January through March is often the hardest time of year, expatriate or not. The hubbub that surrounded the end-of-the-year holidays has long since...
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Recipes
One of my fondest memories of grade school in the U.S. is the classroom holiday parties. And Valentine's day was a definite favorite! Remember making...
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Legal advice
Requests for French nationality mainly are now being met with stricter requirements from French government. I have been addressing the question of...
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Living in France
Given the number of sports channels available via Canal Sat and other cable channels, watching your favorite football team on TV in France is now in...
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Living in France
Fluctuations in currency rates can make a huge difference in the amount of money you end up with when buying/selling property overseas, moving abroad...
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Recipes
Tired of baking the same holiday goodies year after year? Freshen things up a little with holiday recipes, where peppermint candy canes take center...
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Nothing says Christmas like a warm fire burning, Christmas lights twinkling, the smell of fresh-baked sugar cookies, and you and yours snuggled up...
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Raising Bicultural Kids
Child sexual abuse is a crime whose worst enemy is open communication. To remove it from the list of taboo topics is to actively fight against its...
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