LIVING IN FRANCE

My Creative Well Had Run Dry, No Point In Staying At The Desk

Time for a mundane errands day — at least that was the plan

Janice Macdonald
5 min readDec 14, 2022

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A neglected chateau wasn’t part of the plan (author’s photo)

Sometimes it’s thrilling the way a story idea just seems to come from nowhere. Two pain aux raisins and coffee on the breakfast table, for instance, and, voila, a story.

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Janice Macdonald
France Is A Foreign Country

At 68, I started a new chapter in my life: I moved to France. Alone. It turned out to be quite the page-turner. Still is — even when age insists on a part.