Saturday Six #14

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Training over! Eight days of eight-hours of jamming content into my head leaves Andi a tired blogger. What have I missed? What have I missed?

My favorite posts come from the first part of the week when I somehow still had time to read. I may cheat next week and have more than 6 if I have to slip some fab posts from the end of this week in, I am sure that is what is going to happen! Thanks to everyone who commented on the leaving comments on blog posts post I did last Sunday. If you look through the comments you will see that there was no clear answer! But it did give me an understanding of how to proceed.

On to this week’s favorite posts:

[1] Hannah of 2000 Streets wrote a post about her Mom visiting her in Paris. I loved towards the end when she described the scene where she took her mother to a restaurant for dinner. It was a perfect illustration of Tip #3 from my post “Three simple tips on how not to be the annoying American tourist in Paris.” So cute. I think that you have to be a culture passionate about food in order for the people to have the nerve to tell a paying customer, “no, I will not serve it that way.”

[2] Juliana of A Blonde Walks into a Blog (don’t you love that name?) created a touching post on Secrets. As I mentioned in this week’s French Friday post, I am in total awe of people who can tell a story with beautiful photo montages. I am not artistic or creative at all and just dig on that. That’s why I like the books that Jen of Life Unfolds does and the art journaling that Lucrecer of Art Slam does. Juliana did a great jobs with her post, the second photo secret totally killed me.

[3] Berkeleyside wrote a great review/interview of a former Berkeley resident turned author. Zoe Fitzgerald Carter wrote a book called Imperfect Endings: A Daughter’s Tale of Life and Death, about her struggle with her ill mother who wanted to commit suicide because she was suffering from illness. My husband and I always say that we want to be able to have this option if anything should happen to us and we have a long-term or terminal illness. Switzerland allows this, as well as other countries, and now Portland (here is info about this topic). It is a highly controversial topic, but I think it is a very, very personal choice. The book has gotten great reviews, I intend on checking it out and supporting a local author.

[4] Last Saturday I highlight a book review by Alisa, saying that I wished I could write THAT kind of book review (apparently Jen and I are in the same boat…). This week I have to share a post that Julie of Writing Roads wrote for CopyBlogger. I have written a couple of “5 Things” posts about how a certain movie, book, celebrity or character has taught me things about life, but I cannot top Julies post on what the book and movie The Girl and the Dragon Tattoo has taught her. It is a masterpiece! (P.S., there will be more on TGWTDT tomorrow, as it is my latest obsession, stay tuned!)

[5] J’adore this post on Parisien Salon on the topic of Women Over 45 and what that means in France versus the United States. It ties into the book I just finished reading by Edith Kunz called Fatale : How French Women Do It. Edith has a whole chapter about the topic of women “of a certain age” that details how and why women over 40 (50?) are revered in France. She ends her chapter with a sentence I just love, “French women heed their heritage and their history lessons and do not waste time moaning about the number of years they’ve left on this earth, but get down to the business of living passionately, stylishly and gratefully.” Love that!

[6] This last one, okay, two, are not real posts. But I absolutely love them One is a video that a co-worker tweeted about. It is a National Geographic video (short) about the friendship of an orangutan and a dog. The simple message why can’t humans within the same species get along as well as these guys? The next is a promotional website from a Dutch store that is very, very fun. One of my instructors from my training this week shared it with us and I think it is very clever.

Thanks for playing along! If you have any posts you liked from this week, please share, I would love to read them!