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Accents You Don't Hear
Funny, Language, Society / Posted on January 31, 2021February 1, 2021

Accents You Don’t Hear

It happened to me fairly often when I lived in New York. I would spot two or more people from a distance, walking on a […] Read More

Kazakhstan, the 1990s
Food, Language, Society / Posted on October 25, 2020November 2, 2020

How We Came to Be a Multicultural Family – Kazakhstan, the 1990s

Sometime at the very end of the 20th century I moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first leap into the “far […] Read More

Silly and Kind
Family & Parenting, Funny, Language, Society / Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020

Silly and Kind

I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More

The Joy of "Literally"
Books, Funny, Language / Posted on July 29, 2020

The Joy of “Literally”

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

A Different Bastille Day
Family & Parenting, Food, Language / Posted on July 14, 2020

A Different Bastille Day

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

Eli on Growing up
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

Eli on Growing up in Post-War Chicago

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

Eli on His Father
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on February 7, 2020February 7, 2020

Eli on His Father, the Dreamer from Lithuania

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

Language Friction
Family & Parenting, Language / Posted on January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

Language Friction

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's Mother in the 1920s
Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on January 8, 2020

Eli on His Mother, the Ice Queen from Ukraine

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

Family & Parenting, Language, Society / Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019

Tomoko, from Japan to Cleveland – Part 2

In this second part of her interview Tomoko talks about going back to Japan some day and she opens up, a little, on her personal […] Read More

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    I am French. I live in Cleveland, Ohio with my Indian husband and our 7-year-old daughter. Oh, and I am also the owner of Simply Gourmand, an online French grocery store.

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