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What’s in a Name?

March 16, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 15 Comments

Brenda and I were having our French lesson, and I asked our tutor Anna for help creating a telephone answering message for our home phone. She suggested, “Vous êtes bien chez Brenda et Hugh. S’il vous plaît laissez votre message après the bip.” Knowing that in French the h is silent, I asked about how […]

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Filed Under: History, Living Tagged With: Catholic Church, Huguenots, Protestant church

Paris welcomes a new Pope

March 14, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 2 Comments

Wednesday night’s selection of the new Pope Francis was momentous here in Paris. At about 7 pm the single large bourden bell at Notre Dame started ringing with a low and unmistakable gong. We had heard it only once before, the night Pope Benedict stepped down. I turned on the TV and saw the white […]

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: cathedrals, Catholic Church, Notre Dame Cathedral, Pope Francis

Snowing in Paris tonight

March 12, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 21 Comments

It’s snowing here tonight, and it’s beautiful. I took some photos of Notre Dame de Paris and of the streets near our apartment. There isn’t very much snow, but it also appears that Paris has no snow removal equipment. Police lights are flashing everywhere. It’s slick out there. On the other hand, the metro is […]

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Notre Dame Cathedral, snow

The paperless way of life

March 12, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 4 Comments

In many ways we’ve tried to “go paperless” on our sojourn to France. We don’t have a printer but do have a scanner; we’ve learned how to sign documents and send them back without printing. We’re storing almost all of our bookkeeping information electronically. Still, as demonstrated in this video I received courtesy of my […]

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: bookkeeping, paperless bookkeeping, record storage

Dinner at Le Petit Bofinger

March 8, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 2 Comments

Back when we were still living in Vincennes, Brenda and I had picked out a restaurant that we wanted to try called “L’Hedonist“. One night we set out to show up early and beat the rush, only to discover that l’Hedonist was closed. We found ourselves wandering around Vincennes with no idea where to eat. […]

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Filed Under: Dining Tagged With: le petit bofinger

Paris celebrates Pekin

February 22, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 4 Comments

Some of you may know that I have family in Pekin, Illinois. I wanted to include the evidence I’ve found so far that shows that Parisians hold Pekin in high regard.

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