a few words from miranda

Hello friends! I have new and exciting things to report: Crown Publishing Group will be bringing out my book, A Fifty-Year Silence, in J...

I have been on hiatus from my blog since last fall, in order to complete a manuscript. During that time, both the Jewish and the Gregori...

Once a year, when the weather gets cold, a small man of indeterminate age knocks at our door. He is not a prepossessing person. His black ...

Exotic, art-nouveau-inspired decorations are starting to sprout in our house, and Julien has completed the brick wall in our future living r...

France has five seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and La Rentrée.   Our neighbor's grape harvesting machine emerges from it...

August 21 was the seventh anniversary of the passing of my stepfather, Robert Moog, who was what the French would call "mon papa de co...

You probably know the joke about the Jewish Robinson Crusoe who, showing his rescuers around the island, points to the two synagogues he...