Author Archives: JJS

Souvent, j’écris — ou j’essaie d’écrire — en provençal, façon Pagnol, en saupoudrant mes textes de quelques expressions marseillaises que je connais depuis mon enfance. Il faut dire que j’ai été à bonne école : ma mère était belle… et … Continue reading →

🇬🇧 Start saying “What instead” There is one thing I genuinely struggle to understand: the fierce opposition to renewable energy. Not because people raise questions—that is perfectly healthy—but because so many objections seem to stop at “No.” There is rarely … Continue reading →

🇬🇧 or possibly the next ten days I missed last weekend’s recap, and I’m going to go ahead and pre-apologize for the next ten days too, because in approximately three hours the small kiddies and their parents touch down in … Continue reading →

In which we wear white gold and nearly miss a worldcup match If Part 1 was arrival and Part 2 was Versailles doing its Versailles thing, Part 3 is where the plot thickens: a covert operation forty guests deep, a … Continue reading →

Nostalgia, Charged by the Hour In which a shopping mall proves more faithful than expected, a market delivers on old promises, and a rendez-vous looms at the edge of every sentence like a tide coming in. A foreign bed is … Continue reading →