L’Eglise Paroissial de Beynac et Cazenac was constructed on the side of a limestone cliff in the thirteenth century to serve as a castle’s chapel. Parishioners entered through a wooden door in the transect. Turning left – east – they approached the altar. Turning right, they...

shout out to Tucker Gaskins who is turning 10 today.

Within hours of arriving in southern France, I was on my hands and knees in the bathroom of our country home … cleaning up a toilet overflow. S was interpreting labels on French cleaning bottles and handing me paper towels. The boys were in a...

Sure, Usain Bolt is awesome. But this is awesomer … our entry in the Synchronized Sock Dancing Olympic competition:

As we left the Brittany region of France this morning, we said goodbye to our new friends Rebecca and David. You will find them in the dictionary under Generosity. We are grateful to have been in their company and under their roof! They graced us with an early morning serenade of a French...

So ALL the sunflowers in these endless fields are facing the sun. Lots of wonderful lessons to be drawn from that … especially during a quick stop during our long drive south to Dordogne. (On the iPod: Coldplay’s “Charlie...

Please join us for a few minutes of sounds from a nearby village market this morning. We go from chickens for sale (E noted that baby ducks and baby chickens cost less Euros than collared shirts), to a cheese maker who named her goats, to a flower lady with an infectious laugh, to W buying a...

I have a collection of extraordinarily wise friends. You are probably one of them. I hope someday to be able to distill wisdom myself, but for now I am content to garner it from them — and attempt to apply it to my own life. In preparation for our trip, my wise friends calmed my...