This year Minette has become an amateur and eager practitioner of literal jokes. It all began when my friend Tomoko gave her an Amelia Bedelia […] Read More
Author: marianne
Today’s Bastille Day, France’s national day, or “le Quatorze Juillet” as we call it plainly in France. The reference to the Bastille prison that was […] Read More
So much is happening and shifting in the United States right now that merely keeping up seems like a full-time job. Like countless others I […] Read More
The Arab of the Future, Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir of growing up between the Middle East and France, has caught some attention here in the […] Read More
In a different era, one that ended over a month ago for us, Minette and I used to talk and fantasize about what super power […] Read More
After talking about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine, and his father, the dreamer from Lithuania, we now focus on Eli’s growing up as […] Read More
It is warm but not yet hot as we are going up the path leading to the ancient Jain temple. We started our excursion early […] Read More
Last time Eli talked about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine. Now we focus on his father, a warm-hearted dedicated Communist who never renounced […] Read More
We have entered a zone of turbulence. English, French, and Tamil used to coexist peacefully in Minette‘s mind and life. Now things have become somewhat […] Read More
Eli is Appa‘s closest American friend, as well as a dear friend to me. He also happens to have a multicultural background of his own. […] Read More