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| Tumbleweed |
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Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Forever Roamin'. Itinerancy is not just an act of moving about, but is a state of mind. I have almost always been itinerant in both senses of the word, even if sometimes I'm more in one camp than the other. Lately, I've called one particular place, Paris, my home for far longer than I normally would, largely thanks to the good busking to be done and my inadvertent anointment as a life-coach-coach. For just about my entire existence, I've gotten under way within a few days of...
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| French Tease |
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French Tease by Mollie Coyne You Can't Go Home Again. I grew up spending my childhood summers on my great-grandparents' farm in the mountains of western North Carolina. Just down the road from the farm is a cemetery with a statue of a beautiful angel. Throughout my entire childhood, whenever our blue, faux-wood-paneled station wagon would pass by the cemetery, my mother, like clockwork, would turn around and tell me and my older brother, “Look, there's Thomas Wolfe's Angel from Look Homeward, Angel....
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| Treading Perrier |
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Treading Perrier by Isabel Ortiz C'est pas grave. Language acquisition is a constant exercise of trial and error. An infant babbles until she hits on a particular sound that makes the people around her pay attention—“papa” or “mama” in many cases. Then as a toddler she toys around with sentence structure until gradually the people around her understand the complex ideas she's trying to string together with the vocabulary she's been learning all the while. Then comes formal ...
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| Shadow on the City of Light |
 | Shadow on the City of Light by Martin Lowe Fabrice Mueller: an exclusive interview. I thought it was a further canine dreck smear, there on my shoe sole, despite weaving up the sidewalk, somewhat as an airliner dodges new world spring thunde...
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| Outbound Train |
 | Outbound Train by Mollie Coyne Aranjuez. This week's Outbound Train leaves the freezing cold temperatures of France and heads south for the town of Aranjuez in sunny Spain. Aranjuez, a Spanish royal family retreat roughly 50 kilometers f...
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| Hobo in Paris |
 | What is all this junk? Hobo In Paris is comprised of recurring columns and a series of weekly videos on a wide variety of subjects—from the hidden gems of Paris to cultural clashes, from humor to restaurant reviews—all centered aroun...
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