The inmates (orange) and firefighters (yellow) unit to battle 60-acre blaze in Gorman. Funny how we like the mix of colors of our savers when we want to stay safe… The Wander Woman A career as an art director in London and as a photographer, Barbara quit everything to live in a fitted van and produce […]
THE COURAGE TO FEEL AND EXPRESS OUR FEMININE POWER I shared my life with two men. No! Not in the same time, one during 8 years, the next one for 5 years. Few weeks after each break up I’ve been offered the opportunity to do nude photography, which I’m sure I would have refused […]
DONE! THE DREAM CAME TRUE, I WON THE GREEN CARD! 15 Million participants, 125,000 selected and only 50,000 will get this famous green card to live and work in the US for life. I am one of those 50,000! I still can not believe it! I won’t realise it until my feet touch the soil […]
A MINUTE OF HOPE, ONE ACTION DURING A DEPRESSION PHASE MAY CHANGE A LIFE. An appointment that can change the course of a lifetime. Almost by chance, it hits you, we don’t know why. However we can have the feeling to know that it was our destiny, after having visualised and imagined it for […]
the THE AMERICAIN DREAM NEARLY FLEW AWAY. MY GREED WILL LOSE ME! In a previous article I talked about candies that our parents were teaching us to refuse from strangers. The fear of the other is formed very early, and therefore the deprivation of those wonderful things available to us. That is why we must later […]
WHY SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE THAN MY MOTHER TONGUE HELPED ME TO DARE EXPRESS MYSELF, PART TW0 MY RELATION WITH FRENCH LANGUAGE. I REFUSE TO CENSOR MY HEART, I REMAINED MUTE TOO LONG. Despite my studies in literary, I always was very bad at spelling, then scared of writing. Letters wrote to my friends or my […]
HOW I TOOK MY OWN EDUCATION IN HAND TO LEARN ENGLISH The first people I would like to introduce you to, for my HEART OF FRANCE IN 80 DAYS are the lovely Jo & Geoff Spencer. I always disliked the way French education is made, my level in English was terrible, and so I took my […]
THE HEART OF FRANCE IN 80 DAYS Draw a heart on the map of France through the roads I will take. This is my new mission: to touch, to make people dream,in my native land. Because it’s easy to dream in strange, exotic places. But how do we dream in a place we know so well? How […]
The power of vulnerability and honesty. Laurent was selling the Mercedes Sprinter he had customised as a camper van. When I called him to organise a viewing we got talking about the eco houses he was building, and some of his past adventures. Like me, Laurent had left everything – job, house – to cycle […]