Once again we count the hours--and the jobs still to do: pay bills, gather passports and other documents, clean out the fridge, empty the garbage, pack. I keep running down my checklist. We leave for France tomorrow night for an extended period. We leave home. To Paris first, then Nice, our other home. We've been in America since mid-May. Lots of family here, almost no family left there. Having two homes feels a bit awkward, even a bit unsavory. Like having two wives. I'm not sure where home really is anymore. But Nice is where we started life together. Two kids from opposite sides of the world. Young, innocent, penniless, hopeful. I wanted to become a writer, and that worked out--30 books. Many are set in France, some even in Nice. I wanted to marry this young woman, and that seems to have worked out too--63 years. At least so far.
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Mary
10/13/2017 03:40:40 pm
Just read your latest blog...we too, are packing and getting ready for 2+ weeks in France. 1 week in Normandy, 10 days in Nice, our 6th trip. We missed the terrorist attack in Nice last year, by hours. I am curious this trip, to hear what "the rest of the world" is thinking about the direction US policy has taken. Several years ago, a muslim women, came up to me in a Monoprix in Cannes. She asked if I was an American, and said she had lived in Queens in the 1970's. With tears in her eyes, she said she was so sorry what happened to America on 9/11. "Your poor country, and all those people killed, I am so very sorry for America." We are looking forward to a respite from the 24/7 news coverage and getting a breath of fresh air politically. My favorite book by Robert Daley is"Portraits of France."
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