Frenchie Friday: My Inner Frenchie Answers Your Holiday Questions

Two years ago, I was in Paris for Christmas. May I add that the energy was so different than the Christmas craze I had left behind in the States. Excitement, elegance and joie de vivre were palpable as I walked through the Marais.  I returned home with a new sense of what the holidays should feel like. With just five […]

What To Do When Things Aren’t Going Your Way

On Friday, I bought my very first brand new car. I wrecked it 24 hours later.  In fact, as I type this, it’s sitting in a secured yard in a mining town in Colorado, broken and injured. Why am I telling you this? Well, because it would be really easy to spin off into a painful story. […]

French Feminine Secret: Stop Chasing Happiness

Prefer to listen? Click below. If only we’d stop trying to be happy wecould have a pretty good time. Cheer Up. Don’t Worry, Be Happy! Put on a Happy Face! Smile, dammit! Dust yourself off and put a smile on that face of yours! Rah-rah-rah! Just reading this exhausts me.  And, it certainly doesn’t create a sense of joie de vivire. Yet, these […]