The appeal of the sidelong glance, or an experiment in self-obsession

September 24, 2010

I like to think of myself as being quite self-aware — not in the  “God, my thighs are gigantic!” kind of way, but rather in a “Why do I sound so whiny all of a sudden?” kind of way — but recently I had the opportunity to totally wallow in more than a little self-absorption [...]

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Creativity begins at home

September 23, 2010

I love this photo. My current home office is a cramped corner of our apartment (the management helpfully calls it a “dining room,” but we know better), and although I certainly get work done there, it’s not ideal. I suppose I should be inspired by the fact that Stephen King reportedly wrote his first novel, [...]

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The Longest Month

September 22, 2010

I can’t even begin to tell you how sorry I am that it’s been so long since my last post. Everyone’s been so kind as to continue to post, subscribe to my feeds, and even mention me on Twitter, and for that I’m so grateful! This blog will be four (!!!) years old in a [...]

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The art of dessert

August 7, 2010

Sometimes, you just want something sweet and sinful, or at least something sinful but without the consequences. (That’s always way more fun.) You could have a decadent, outrageous dessert like a chocolate mud pie or a cherry pie dripping with warm sauce. Or you could just have ice cream. Or fruit bar. Just had a [...]

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If time is more important than money, then who am I?

July 12, 2010

The most recent Poets & Writers magazine closes on the final page with an essay by Harryette Mullen, an American poet and recent winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, which carries with it a $50,000 purse. The generous amount will allow the poet to carry on her work without having to worry about keeping body [...]

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Work as an art form

May 26, 2010

I love Betty C. of La France Profonde. She’s been a friend and follower of My Inner French Girl almost since the day I launched the blog in 2007 and has seen it go through the ritual ups and downs that any personal blog inevitably must undergo. We’ve commiserated about the difficulties of blogging and [...]

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The day my car flew through a butterfly

May 21, 2010

The title of this post isn’t very SEO-friendly–and as an online marketing consultant, I should know better, but what the hey–but it came to me as I was driving through Dallas last night, on the way home from an event that one of my clients held to promote her business, and I idly noticed a [...]

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Interview: Marjorie Price, author of A Gift From Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside

April 16, 2010

It’s not often that I meet another woman named Marjorie, but oddly enough, many of the Marjories I have met–or have known–have been writers. And my mother tells me that she named me after the author of a book she was reading at the time she was pregnant with me. Now, the book was actually [...]

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Author Interview: Mary Beth Raycraft, A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World’s Columbian Exposition

April 6, 2010

As a former academic-to-be, I love books published by academic presses, especially those that seem so well-suited to a mainstream audience and yet don’t seem to get the appreciation they deserve by the general reading public. So many so-called “academic” books are so much better-written, better-developed and more fun to read than their mainstream counterparts [...]

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Author Interview: Sandra Gulland, Mistress of the Sun

April 2, 2010

I love doing podcasts, and yet for some reason I haven’t been doing enough of them. Hands down, the fun-nest ones are with writers, of course, and to a woman, all the ones I’ve interviewed for My Inner French Girl have been so kind, down-to-earth, funny, and sharp. I recently had the privilege of interviewing [...]

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