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Toutes Directions: September 2010
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Monday, September 27, 2010. Profound South: Invincible Summer. Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un été invincible.". About a month into my summer stay in Paris, I bought a little purse-sized bottle of Tabasco and began carrying it with me like a fiery flask. I loved the thought of it tucked into my bag, a potion from home. Is this the culinary equivalent of packing heat? I wondered. And if so, what was I armed against? During ...
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Toutes Directions: January 2011
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Sunday, January 9, 2011. King Cake and Babies. 8220;If Madame S. ever tries to feed you something, check first to make sure there’s not an infant inside.”. A line from Simon’s letter to the following year’s French class after my first year of teaching. The first time I made a King Cake, I used a box mix from New Orleans that my sister sent me with a little post-it exclaiming, “For your class! So what is a King Cake? Back in North Carolin...
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Toutes Directions: N.O., N.O., N.O., and 4 Bottles of Rum
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Thursday, July 14, 2011. NO, NO., N.O., and 4 Bottles of Rum. If you’ve ever read the lyrics of “Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum,”. You know that that rum can prove perilous. With rum, one runs the risk of pirates run riot. (Try saying that 3 times fast after you’ve had a shot or so.). After much reading and re-reading of lyrics, and a little vocabulary acquisition (A “boozy ken” is not. How did the pirates go? Is the brawl about booty?
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29 to 30 in 366 days of new experiences (it is, after all, a leap year). I like to Read. Hefeweizen (359th new thing). January 16, 2013. One of the pitfalls of brewing beer in your house is the aromatic infiltration of hops…to everything. After an evening spent making wort the house smells as if a brewery exploded in the kitchen, and it’s not necessarily a positive experience. The first batch of beer I brewed. Wasn’t too bad, but the pale ale. Stunk up the house for. When it came time for bottling the br...
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The List | laura turning 30
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29 to 30 in 366 days of new experiences (it is, after all, a leap year). I like to Read. Everything so far. Items without a link have not been written and/or published yet. So you know I am truly keeping up, at least with the. Make a Vegan Dessert. Knit a Tea Cozy. Publish a Real Blog. Get a Chinese Foot Massage. Drink a Green Beer (on St. Patrick’s Day). Eat a Big Mac. Check out a Supermoon. Eat a Ghetto Burger. See the Asymmetry of my Face. Donate to NPR’s Pledge Drive. Write on a Public Bathroom Wall.
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Toutes Directions: May 2011
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Friday, May 27, 2011. Requisite Intent is a legal term I learned from a lawyer from New Orleans. Since then, I’ve had an almost-empty file folder by that title. Yesterday, I put something in it. Sunday, May 22, 2011. Not Bad, Crawdad . . . Of What's Said and Shibboleths. It was the culminating rhymed bye of a g-chat that began with a pedestrian pleasantry, (“See you later, alligator! I interrogated my French 1002 students. Sometimes ch...
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Toutes Directions: June 2011
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Mardi Gras is a Legal Holiday in Louisiana. With great memories of Dan Willis (August 11, 1954 - May 30, 2011). Store Sign in Downtown Eunice. Outside of Louisiana, it’s hard to grasp what Mardi Gras means, in-state. I imagined, then, that in New Orleans, people paraded on Mardi Gras day but would have never guessed that the Fat Tuesday festivities were actually the culmination of weeks of parades. Which seemed p...
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Toutes Directions: August 2011
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Friday, August 5, 2011. French Fairy Tale: The Forest of Languages. For the last in-class writing assignment of the semester, I asked my second-level French students to compose a fairy tale that included at least three members of the class and demonstrated their ability to distinguish one form of the past tense from another. Michael made magic out of 200 words and 50 minutes. So,. The Forest of Languages. Loved to study French! They stud...
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Toutes Directions: July 2011
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Toutes Directions: Fumblings and Findings in the Francophone World. Thursday, July 14, 2011. NO, NO., N.O., and 4 Bottles of Rum. If you’ve ever read the lyrics of “Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum,”. You know that that rum can prove perilous. With rum, one runs the risk of pirates run riot. (Try saying that 3 times fast after you’ve had a shot or so.). After much reading and re-reading of lyrics, and a little vocabulary acquisition (A “boozy ken” is not. How did the pirates go? Is the brawl about booty?