About my French-English ‘rye field’…:-)

Bonjour-Hello everybody! 🙂 You’ve just landed @ a fun & stress-free zone, “Far from the (real!) Madding Crowd”(Thomas Hardy’s novel!), with NO ‘elitist’ claims or snobbish targets, it’s NOT a Nobel prize race, it’s a relaxing field, with NO commercial purposes and NO ads! Andy Warhol said:”In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15′.” – well, I don’t look for those 15′ of virtual or real fame! This is not an intimate or personal diary, but a creativity, dialogue, communication and fun spot: I like playin’ and jugglin’ with words! I was born in Romania, I do feel European, and France has been my current homeland for decades. I also spent 5 years in Houston(Clear Lake-NASA subdivision, TX, USA). I’m not gonna edit my CV(résumé in English, LOL!) or my degrees, ’cause who really cares?! 😉 I came  across people with high degrees on several continents who did not impress me much, whereas I met people with no degree(s) – far more interesting and more impressive than the first ones. ‘Life experience diplomas’ are my cup(s) of green tea or dark coffee! 🙂 I reckon myself as ‘a global citizen’, a stand-by passenger, waiting for the next connecting, exciting and challenging flight. My Latin motto is:”memento mori, carpe diem et gaudeamus igitur!” – remember you’ll die, live this very day and therefore, let’s enjoy it to the fullest! 🙂

N.B “I am a guest in your life. You are a guest in mine. Not something, perhaps, requiring a dress code, but a little etiquette?”(Robert Brault)

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My blogging experience started in 2008 when I was honored to become an active, constant and faithful contributor to Mrs Anne Sinclair’s blog until mid-May 2011 – a wonderful and enriching season for which I’m still grateful and thankful. She’s a French well-known and respected journalist, both in France and in the US: http://annesinclair.typepad.fr/journal/
I’m not living in a ‘teddybear land'(sic!), but I refuse and I avoid to complain about life, as it’s boring, vain and useless. I’ve chosen to be cheerful, positive, optimistic: what you see is what you get, but frankly speakin’ you can’t and you won’t get it all! 😉 I don’t hold any absolute truth, I don’t try to impose myself, to give lessons, to prove or to show off anything – both virtually or/and in real life. After all, I’m not a ‘facebook status’ or a ‘blog post’ to be liked, so I quote a close and “old” friend:”take me, accept me or leave me, but remember this: if you leave me, it’s gonna be your loss, not mine!”, thus:”Qui m’aime, me suive!” – “Who likes me, (will) follow me!”(Philippe VI de Valois)

Make yourself at home, but please do remember: you are in my home, so decent language and mutual respect are highly appreciated. I don’t belong to any social networks, I don’t have a blogroll and I don’t follow any blogs, as my spare time is quite limited! NO awards, NO trolls, NO fake or automatic ‘likes’, SVP-PLEASE, for I’m thoroughly interested in QUALITY, not in quantity! 🙂 Regarding copyright – unless otherwise stated, all of the texts and pix you see here are mine – legally protected by international laws. If you like any of them, just ask for my permission or/and quote the source(s). You are kindly invited to interact, to play, and to enjoy the ride(s); French, English, Romanian, Spanish and Italian comments are welcome! MERCI-THANX for your attention and for your comprehension! Sincerely yours, Mélanie – wild Nature, cat and literature lover, down-to-earth Cappy gal, regular or episodic wayfarer – in short:”une dilettante générale assumée” qui se régale de la vie – an assumed general dilettante who enjoys life… 🙂