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Pumpkin seeds
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01.07.07Job searchI have spent the morning searching for higher paying positions in order to sponsor Vilay myself. I have given up on Dayton and am looking in Cincinnati. One of the jobs that appealed to me the most out of all the jobs that I have applied for is as a loan processor. So, I will start looking for that job title specifically. I have a background processing loans as an Office Manager. I was thouroughly trained for this and have over four years experience with loan processing at the branch level at both banks that I have worked at. It was ...
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01.07.07Letter to CongressmanCongressman Turner, I am an American by birth with three American children born to myself and my French husband. We moved back to the U.S. after my husband lost his job in France. We had no where to go. I have applied for my husband's green card and work authorization. I do not make enough money to be his sponsor and do not have anyone willing to take such a risk. My issue with all of this is simple. I am an American citizen. I have been married to my husband almost six years. We have three beautiful American children together. As ...
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01.04.07Coming together againWhen I had to leave France I was bitter and afraid. I was happy and bold. I was lost and found all at the same moment. I see the good and the bad in both countries. I would prefer to spend six months in France and six months in America. I wish I could have both all year long. But, I cannot. I have found that as I have written over the past months on this blog I have let it spill from the gutt. When you read many of the posts they are unedited and written from the heart or so ...
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12.21.06Making my own luckI have been reading some of my old posts to try and find my voice again. I think that it is helping. Once we moved from our apartment in Strasbourg into my husband's parents home, I lost my heart for writing. I want it back. I know that I miss France and that it will never go away. I know this because I have been reading my old posts about missing America and how I would think about and miss America every day that I was living in France. You can read one of my favorite posts here. I am happy today. ...
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12.21.06Jeanne d’Arc - Joan of ArcSaint Maurice church, Strasbourg. Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) is the patron saint of our family. Whenever, I feel my family needs protection or special guidance I pray to her. I have always admired her story and the history of her bravery. I most of all admired how she believed without faulter in God and loved France. She saved France. We have stood in the house of her birth and the church she worship in. We have walked through her small village and looked across the soft hills around it. While standing with a four year old Angel ...
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12.13.06Words to live by“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.” - Sir Henry Royce I see this quote several times a week. It is a gentle reminder that life is what we make of it. I think it is worth sharing here.
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12.06.06We are all just humansI have decided to leave my job at the Mall. Hmmmm...could it be because working until 1 in the morning is just not cutting it. Vilay is not loving picking me up with the three kids in the backseat of the car. He has to drag them all out by himself into the cold night. Why? We have a stick. I can't drive a stick. I do love doing the whole clothing retail thing in small doses of time. I could not do it for more than a fun-I-really-don't-care kind of job. Sure...I work hard and show up on time. I don't watch ...
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11.28.06Lost in translationFlickr photo by krazykritter I was gone all of two and a half years. However, during that short time Ohio changed. Alot. There are even more places to shop and eat. As if we really needed more. But, that is a small thing compared to another issue that is more important. I see a "new" Mexican immigration where before the biggest immigration to be seen around Dayton, Ohio was from India. Other than overhearing the occasional Indian speaking in their native language, my world was not changed due to this or any other immigration. Until now. Since coming back to live in Ohio, I have seen Mexican faces all around ...
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11.07.06Looking back on 9/11Follow this link to visit 9/11 from the window of a Mr. Smith's apartment window. Once you have looked at all the photos, go back to the first one to compare it to the last photo. To this day I grow quiet and sad when I see images of 9/11 or think of that awful day. It is not the buildings that are missing from the New York skyline that upset me. It is the lives that were taken from loved ones and the fact that parents will never come home to their children. The missing buildings are a representation of ...
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11.05.06Missing the life of an expatA guy that I work with asked me what I missed the most about living in France. I, at first, told him that I missed the food and culture. I missed the history. I missed visiting neighboring countries. You know. All the typical things. All the things that I do miss. However, last night while we were once again working together, I told him that I had been thinking about his question. And, that I had a better and more honest answer. I told him that what I missed the most was living the life of an expat. I missed being the sexy ...
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