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Laughing Madeleine: Where Are You From?
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Thursday, September 5, 2013. Where Are You From? Lucille Ball, Keith Thibodeaux, and Desi Arnaz as the Ricardos. [Online image] 1956. Whether at home in Paris or back home in California, I get asked the same question. Where are you from? Just so they can hear the tortured syllables escape my American mouth, as my brain searches in vain for safe alternatives: " potiron. Where Are You From? View my complete profile.
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Laughing Madeleine: October 2009
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Monday, October 26, 2009. Halloween in Paris: Less Fuss, More Fun. For the past few years, the French have been feeling pretty smug around la Toussaint. Halloween is gone for good," they gloat. "It wasn't a French holiday to begin with- it couldn't have lasted," they shrug, pointing to bland shop windows that used to be filled with gaping jack-o-lantern grins and spindly spider legs in woolly webs come October. Even store chains like Monoprix have started to skimp on the Halloween déco. Drew Barrymore as...
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Laughing Madeleine: April 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. My mother had told me that one of the best parts about being pregnant is how nice everyone suddenly becomes. I still wasn't prepared. For any of it. Parisian bus drivers who overnight began waiting for me with open doors, telling me not to run. Salesmen offering to carry my purchases for me. Fellow shoppers letting me go ahead of them at check-out. My mother-in-law asking me how I am. And did I mention my mother-in-law? Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray. [Online image] 2010. System, ...
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Laughing Madeleine: Switching Sides
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Monday, September 27, 2010. John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer as Jim and Pam Halpert. [Online image] 2010. Let em Cry, Let em Cry, Let em Cry! View my complete profile.
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Laughing Madeleine: January 2014
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Monday, January 6, 2014. Oh, La Vache! Dairy Intolerance and French Public Schools. French cheese commercial for Caprice des Dieux. Afternoon snack that's more like a sanctified meal in France), and dinner. Although my son didn't indulge in these well marketed fromages. For kids (he drank glasses of full-fat milk à l'américaine. Where he was signed up to have lunch twice a week. At most French schools, students have two lunch options: they can either stay at school for a hot cafeteria ( cantine. To my re...
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Laughing Madeleine: Plastic or Nothing?
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012. F Huffman and D. Savant in DH. Asking for bags at a Paris grocery store (La Grande Epicerie aside) can feel a lot like pulling teeth- deeply rooted, French teeth. You hold your breath as the checker eyes your groceries- trying to eyeball the bare minimum of bags needed to carry your bananas and yogurt home in one piece- before doling them out begrudgingly, one by one. Walking down the street later with your coveted sacs. View my complete profile.
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Laughing Madeleine: "Le Troisième Sexe"
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. My mother had told me that one of the best parts about being pregnant is how nice everyone suddenly becomes. I still wasn't prepared. For any of it. Parisian bus drivers who overnight began waiting for me with open doors, telling me not to run. Salesmen offering to carry my purchases for me. Fellow shoppers letting me go ahead of them at check-out. My mother-in-law asking me how I am. And did I mention my mother-in-law? Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray. [Online image] 2010.
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Laughing Madeleine: "Oh, La Vache !": Dairy Intolerance and French Public Schools
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Monday, January 6, 2014. Oh, La Vache! Dairy Intolerance and French Public Schools. French cheese commercial for Caprice des Dieux. Afternoon snack that's more like a sanctified meal in France), and dinner. Although my son didn't indulge in these well marketed fromages. For kids (he drank glasses of full-fat milk à l'américaine. Where he was signed up to have lunch twice a week. At most French schools, students have two lunch options: they can either stay at school for a hot cafeteria ( cantine. To my re...
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Laughing Madeleine: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer as Jim and Pam Halpert. [Online image] 2010. Thursday, September 16, 2010. Let 'em Cry, Let 'em Cry, Let 'em Cry! As a new mother in Necker's maternity ward, I just assumed that my roommates (I was there long enough to have two) both happened to have severe emotional disorders- or hearing problems. What kind of person would just sit there chewing on tepid pintade. While her newborn screamed? Yes, I'm afraid it does. Sucks to be human.
