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Our friend Alessandro is back in Philadelphia for a few weeks. Why? He is defending his PhD dissertation today. Yes today, Monday May 19th. His dissertation is in the field of Sociology of Emotions dealing with caregivers. He was in the Sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania, which is where we met. Wish him [...]

Here is a variety of photos from a variety of places. Some were at the farm last Sunday after the Obama event. Beautiful old farm and the cheese in the photo was made by the owners. The village photos were from St Affrique. I had too many photos last week so some went into this [...]

There is a longstanding stereotype about the French that they don’t like to wear deodorant and hence they tend to smell. While it is probably an oversimplification, it is not entirely untrue. As the weather warms up going to the gym can be a bit of an ordeal.
Now all gyms smell a bit, but [...]

I just tried to legally apply for the right to post this article on my blog, I think it works fine. Here it is. I am very jaded about such law because it feel like we have seen it all before. Is this truly historic? Other states don’t have to recognize it, other states that [...]

Check out this photo gallery. Tonight, a large amount of snow and sleet fell. I have 3 news channels on and I am trying to beat them to the coverage. Look at all this snow. It was such a nice day today, what happened?

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I haven’t been working very much lately. There have been a slew of French holidays coinciding with the days my class falls on. School holiday, May Day, also an article on Hub Pages, Victory Day, etc. Today I went to work for the first time in 3 weeks, no I don’t get paid when I [...]