(Bilingual Post) Brasser & Houblon: From making rosé to making beer… winemaker gets a lesson in brewing

This time of year while scaredy-cats are talking about hobgoblins, Jean-Marc introduces us to houblons…or Humulus Lupulus. On Tuesday he saw them with his very eyes in the historic quarter of Nice, France! Read on about this bois du diable and its relation to beer, in today's column. (Thank you, Eileen deCamp, for this beautiful photo!) un houblon     : hop, hops     … Continue reading (Bilingual Post) Brasser & Houblon: From making rosé to making beer… winemaker gets a lesson in brewing

The Serenity Prayer in French + La Prière de la Sérénité en anglais

I first saw The Serenity Prayer at a friend's house. We were 13 years old at the time and had free rein (her parents were rarely home). Skipping through the hallway one day, a curling iron in one hand and candy bar in the other–the words in a picture frame stopped me in my tracks. I  hope they'll have the same effect on you. AUDIO … Continue reading The Serenity Prayer in French + La Prière de la Sérénité en anglais

objet-trouve – see what’s been found in today’s edition!

Lost sheep are just one of the things I've found lately (this was a cover I did for a book, whose title was changed to Wish, Prune, Pray: Spirited away to a Wine Farm in Provence. I eventually printed the book, but lost the sheep photo. Then I quit printing the book and found the sheep photo. More about the book some other time, today … Continue reading objet-trouve – see what’s been found in today’s edition!