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©TheMadeleineDiaries I confess to feeling quite stumped, and not really knowing what to write about. I know that it’s Thursday afternoon,...

I am not the most natural hostess. I think I’ve already said that, maybe several times. If so, I apologize. As much as I love a good...

Well, I did not end up cooking on Easter in the end. And as it turned out, this was exactly what I needed. I had found myself craving company upon coming back from France. I had visions of a big lunch, like we hosted in Paris over the past two years. First with my in-laws visiting from California – a large, mostly vegetarian crowd with two veggie haters and an impromptu non-Muslim Ramadan follower. You can imagine what I was secretly thinking while planning the menu for that

I am not sure yet whether I will be cooking for Easter this year. I just came back from France and didn’t plan anything before leaving....

©️TheMadeleineDiaries Well, after complaining for several weeks about how much I missed home, I ended up going back for the children’s...

Things have been tough around here lately. It’s nothing new but I have been missing home keenly over the past few days, or maybe even...

I don’t feel much inspired today, and nothing really came up for me over the past week, cooking wise or otherwise. It’s been one of those...

It might not have escaped you that my last post did not include a recipe. And was just some weird rant about a difficult week and a...

It would be a lie to say that I have had a good week. Not that it’s been completely awful, either. But the gods seem to have decided that...

I am back after a few days away, and a bout of generalized anxiety that has made it hard to focus on any kind of work. Anxiety, and...

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©TheMadeleineDiaries I never thought I would one day be a “Soccer Mom”. And I guess I am not one, officially, yet. Although I did find...

(c)TheMadeleineDiaries This past Sunday was Chandeleur in France. Translated as Candlemas, - a word I had never heard in English before...

I must admit I had no idea what to write about today. I have been trying to establish a Thursday writing routine, but this morning, upon...

©️ The Madeleine Diaries After my rant about all the things I hated about New York City when I moved back this summer , I thought I would...

Knock knock. It feels so strange to be back here after nine months. Like returning to an old childhood home, now fully deserted after a...

I know I promised a fancy-sounding Santorini salad for my next post. But it turns out I have barely had the strenghth to fry an egg this...

Hi there. As you may or may not have noticed, there hasn't been much going on around here lately. There has been a two-week school...

You will be surprised to know that earlier this week, when I posted about my somewhat failed attempts at free, empowered, 21-st century...

Another two weeks just went by. I felt very accomplished when I published my last post one day early, on a Wednesday. Much less so when I...