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Sep.14.2012
I promise you fresh stuff on the next posts, ie:
LEGAL UNIONS CHEZ LES FRANCAIS....
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...and after that:
APARTHEID CHEZ LES AMERICAINS:
In the meantime, after speaking to my Mother in NYC today who had just worked on the polls for the Presidential primary, I...
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Jun.23.2012
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Recently, a person wrote me asking how I handled racism in the South of France. This person claimed they had lived here and found the people extremely racist to the point of driving him out of the country. The writer claimed that he was East Asian and Caucasian....
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Mar.15.2012
She opened the door to her villa.
Belle…ravissante…in her long pink satin robe…her thick, black cotton candyhair, billowing her warm brown, delicate face. he thought, reassured by being in her presence again. She held a cup of coffee in her hand.
He stood in front of her. ...
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Dec.15.2011
I was on a transatlantic flight not long ago, where I decided to watch a re-run of The Bill Cosby Show.
Although decades had passed, I clearly recalled the controversy it elicited throughout the nation…particularly among it’s black population. There had been outraged cries of“Blacks don’t...
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Nov.16.2011
Let me pick up where I left off…
Now, when there are two paychecks in a household a family unit might develop an erroneously inflated sense of economic worth. Suddenly the family finds that they are paying outrageous prices for small, often unnecessary things. The traffic suddenly decides to...
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Nov.16.2011
Rosie the Riviter
Recently I received a letter from a male friend in response to a blog I wrote concerning the precarious situation in regard to the precarious state of the European Union. My friend, a native New Yorker, is an educator, activist and Fulbright scholar and has for decades lived...
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Nov.03.2011
First let me emphasize the fact that I did not coined this phase. Nevertheless, it brings up the topic of why there are such troubling conditions and conflicts in the European Union.
For those of you who don’t know, the expression White Trash is an American English pejorative term...
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Sep.07.2011
When did you discover writing?
When I was in elementary school. In first grade, a teacher taught us how to make books…writing, illustrating and binding… as an art project. I fell in love with the idea that such a thing could exist and began writing. For my seventh birthday a male cousin gave me a...
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Aug.28.2011
Sometimes I feel that someone has vandalized the culture of the English language, spray painted all over it. Just trampled rough shod all over the beauty, nuances and melodies of our words and expressions. Or ... perhaps I've just been romantically involved...cohabitating... with this seductive,...
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Apr.19.2011
Why are photos like this circulating? It’s not as if I’m lacking in a sense of humor; it’s just that I don’t understand the basis of this joke. During my University years, I had a number of Caucasian roommates who never ceased to be amazed and ultimate expressed various forms of jealously...
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Apr.13.2011
1) If you are looking for commercial success, study the books on the bestseller lists and select your target audience.
2) If you are an artist, write what you want and study the craft.
3) In preparing for your success and/or reconitionsl, take martial arts because there will be all kinds of folks...
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Mar.26.2011
For years I noticed…all over Nice… on bill boards, buses and bus stop shelters, humungous ads for The Wall Street English Institutes.Having no need to study something like this nor the desire to teach English, I continued to remain mildly curious without checking out what it was all about. Besides...
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Mar.06.2011
As a long-time expat in France, I need to pose several unanswered questions which have been causing me some sleepless nights, lately:
1) When some groups of people demand that they intend to take America back, who exactly do they feel has invaded and whose culture do they feel has come and...
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Mar.06.2011
So, yesterday I finished reading Whoopie Goldberg’s book Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out there? This, to me, was a hilarious book which basically implied that the United States has become a nation of arrogant and smug Philistines! I would like to share with you a joke from her chapter: Buddy is...
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Mar.06.2011
Recently an acquaintance of mine who lives in Germany commented on my blog concerning the “Chic of French Women.” To encapsulate his quite lengthy response which was sent to me through my private email, he basically stated his opinion on what he felt was the self -deprecating tendency of American...
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About Delorys
Historically Speaking… I am: a native New Yorker; a transplanted Manhattanite living for over a decade in the South of France;
a writer and author of the novels GINGERSNAPS and LADYFINGERS;
presently working on the third and fourth...