Composing L'AUBE

Dec 4, 2020

Book Seven: L’AUBE

4 December 2020 The Day of Deliverance, arrives, at last, enfin en France, first in Provence, and, then, within a mere matter of days, in...

Sep 28, 2020

Book Six: La Résistance - Turning the Corner

Late September 2020 La Résistance is the term that was used most accurately, historically and fundamentally for the covert internal fight...

May 2, 2020

Sherman’s March to the Sea

2 May 2020 I continue with translation of THE DAWN into L’AUBE, at a pace that Dear Husband calls Sherman’s march to the sea. In reality,...

Feb 3, 2020

Volume II - Book Five: Pour La Victoire

February 2020 Many are the pleasures of a novelist when she discovers, or re-discovers, elements of her writing that she had long...

Jun 6, 2019

Book Four: Operation Nottingham - Op Nott

D-Day 2019 Ah ! Comment Artur me manque ! Oh! How I miss Arthur! In French, missing someone is a matter of putting the onus on the other...

Feb 13, 2019

Email Notes

13 February 2019 There are times, on a rainy Wednesday such as this one, when the rain and gray skies become overwhelming. And the Day...

Nov 3, 2018

Hockey Night in Provence

November 2018 It’s autumn in California, and in Toronto — and in Provence. This autumn 2018, the French translation of BOOK 3, Guillaume,...

Jan 2, 2018

Book Three: Guillaume

January 2018 It feels like an early spring here in northern Northern California as I begin the translation of Book Three of THE DAWN into...

Mar 21, 2017

Book Two: Arthur

Composing L’AUBE Update In early March 2017, I decided to come to an all-stop, an operational pause, a personal and professional halt in...

Feb 1, 2016

Volume I - Book One: Camille

Composing L’AUBE 2016 Admittedly, I wrote THE DAWN with the French sensibility, aspiring to one day translate it into French. It is...