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Judy - 01.11.2025
1. MyFrenchLife™ Magazine caller articles
“There are galore talented contributors to MyFrenchLife Magazine and I convey each of you for sharing your experiences with america successful specified an engaging manner.
You instrumentality america close crossed France & heavy into galore worm-holes. We delight successful discovering
and learning much astir France beyond the cliché”
Merci
Judy
Introducing a caller Contributor: Lorraine Tilbury
Lorraine introduces herself as:
I learned French arsenic a kid successful Greece and studied veterinary medicine successful France, wherever I person lived ever since.
On Substack, I’ll stock Mom’s WW2 stories, her matrimony to my American dad, her French power connected maine earlier I spoke a connection of French.”
However, I’ve recovered Lorraine to beryllium peculiarly humble, and I’ve quoted and reproduced a much implicit bio below, truthful you tin get a amended thought of the extent of the fantastic Contributors we person successful this team. Welcome, Lorraine, you’re successful beauteous company!
“Dr. Lorraine Tilbury has already realized galore of her puerility dreams: she is simply a multilingual veterinarian, surviving successful a 16th-century renovated priory successful the beauteous Loire Valley region, surrounded by her household and her carnal companions.”
Lorraine supports her herd of 5 horses truthful that THEY tin beryllium the guides and coaches of her workshops and seminars. They are the existent “coaches” and guides of the participants of the Eponaquest © workshops that she organizes.”
Lorraine regularly contributes to BBC Capital’s online mag and has lectured connected 3 continents, from India to Arizona, via Paris. She is creating a postulation of works of creation by applying the “Intentional Creativity ©” method (”creation with an intention”). It is simply a almighty method of originative look that helps to clarify beingness plans. Lorraine uses techniques of collage and “scrapbooking” associated with drafting and coating to usher you towards your idiosyncratic and nonrecreational fulfillment, supported by her horses who volition “whisper” to you their advice, besides ... if you cognize however to perceive to them!”
Lorraine’s creations are inspired and humorous - they bespeak her mode of life.”
Lorraine finds her interior Being done her creations, wherever she shapes the contented of her psyche successful a mode that highlights the richness of her imagination. Lorraine spent 45 years knowing that she could unrecorded her dreams - present she would similar to assistance others bash the same.”
… And present is Lorraine’s archetypal publication - a fascinating read
a) Fontevraud Abbey: 700 years of feminine power
by Lorraine Tilbury
The Abbey of Fontevraud is an astonishing portion of medieval architecture and history, located successful the Loire Valley successful the halfway of the aptly-named Fontevraud-l’Abbaye village. The Abbey was the halfway of a immense European powerfulness operation led by a azygous pistillate Abbess for astir 700 years, a highly antithetic hierarchy,” wrote Lorraine.
b) 10 Things I’m Doing to Save Money successful Paris
by Victorine Lamothe
I don’t cognize astir you, but lately it seems similar everyone is talking astir money: needing much of it, spending excessively overmuch of it, oregon worrying astir wherever the adjacent paycheck volition travel from. In my ain circle, I cognize radical who’ve been laid off, seen status accounts shrink, or—like me—are juggling aggregate freelance gigs to wage the bills.:
Half of my income comes from tourism. I pb nutrient & vino tours successful Paris, mostly for American visitors, and I’ve noticed a subtle shift: June, typically a booming month, feels a spot slower with less afloat booked tours and smaller tips. Maybe Americans are tamping down connected their European question plans, oregon if they are inactive coming, possibly they’re skipping the “extras.” Whatever the reason, I’m tightening up,” writes Victorine.
The bully news?
c) Unspoken French Rules, from Cheese to the Bise
by Shelby Chambers
I often stock the communicative of the archetypal clip I met my French in-laws backmost successful 2015. It was astatine a cute small cottage successful Brittany, wherein a fortuitous brushwood with food led maine to observe THE RULES. Not that they matter. But they do.”
My in-laws weren’t my in-laws then; they were my boyfriend’s parents, and due to the fact that I’d met that fellow successful California, the French civilization didn’t yet play a large relation successful our relationship. So far…” writes Shelby.
2. Merci mille fois
“Thank you for subscribing to ‘le Bulletin’, the newsletter of MyFrenchLife Magazine.”
Judy MacMahon
Chers amis (dear friends)
There we are, friends—your play speechmaking sorted with stories that span medieval abbeys, modern budgets, and the minefield of French societal etiquette.
Lorraine’s accomplishment successful our hugely talented contributor ellipse feels similar a gift. Her portion connected Fontevraud Abbey isn’t conscionable history; it’s a reminder of however almighty and progressive this spot was, a woman-led instauration successful medieval Europe that thrived for 700 years. If you’re readying immoderate Loire Valley travels, this should perfectly beryllium connected your database now.
Victorine’s candid look astatine her fiscal world successful Paris struck specified a chord with me. She’s juggling freelance work, watching tourism numbers dip, and figuring retired however to support her prime of beingness without breaking-the-bank. What I emotion astir is that she’s not pretending everything is fine… she’s sharing existent strategies for existent challenges. If you’re surviving successful France oregon dreaming of it, this benignant of applicable contented is invaluable.
And past there’s Shelby’s food story, which made maine genuinely laughter retired loud. Meeting your French partner’s parents for the archetypal clip and discovering done cheese—cheese!—that determination are Rules with a superior R for perfectly everything? The bise protocols, the cutting angles, each the invisible codes that marque French civilization truthful simultaneously maddening and enchanting? She nails it. If you’ve ever felt similar an outsider trying to decode French societal norms, this portion volition marque you consciousness wonderfully little alone.
Thank you for trusting maine with a small of your play time. This assemblage of Francophiles and France-lovers is genuinely special, and I’m grateful you’re portion of it. Don’t hide that paid subscribers get tomorrow’s extended variation with adjacent much stories, discoveries, and an nonfiction from me. Either way, I anticipation your play is wonderful, whether you’re dreaming of France oregon surviving it.
Warmly,
Judy
judy@myfrenchlife.org
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