HUSBAND: “You seem happier.” ME: “Thanks, I uploaded our whole argument into ChatGPT and it said I was right.” My husband is currently sitting on the couch watching rugby while I cook, clean, organise the house, and deal with everything that needs dealing with. And this man’s biggest responsibility today is apparently keeping the couch…
By Ismar, in Brazil. I have always believed there is a line between being interested in another person and entering a part of their life that does not belong to you. Then I started dancing, met new people and discovered that sometimes curiosity opens a door rather than crosses a boundary. When I was a…
By our editor, Janita Le Grange. It is a simple question, but if I’m being completely honest, I ask it of myself at least half a dozen times a day. Take WhatsApp, for instance. I will open a message, read it carefully, compose a brilliant, thoughtful response entirely in my head, and then walk away….
By Fruitloop and The Mayor, and it’s ok if you don’t understand. We don’t either. Or? At Fruitloop University’s magical supermarket, a dragon, an alien, a mermaid and a nervous garden gnome discover that the difficult part is rarely finding the answer. It is having the nerve to ask the question. There are supermarkets, and…
By Rosie, Brazil, Fruitloop, South Africa and The Mayor, France. Some questions make us stop and think. Others send us towards fortune tellers, forbidden soup and aliens building pyramids. At Lunch, apparently, both kinds are equally important. The conversation started, as Lunch conversations often do, somewhere between ordinary life and mild chaos. Rosii arrived tired…
Brida brings a small international group around a hosted table, in English, to talk about the life already happening around them. No lessons. No performance. Just room to speak, listen, and see where the conversation goes. For more information send a WhatsApp to Frank or Janita on +33 7 49 01 84 85 Welcome to…
By Bruce Lloyd, The United Kingdom and Frank Peters, France. I arrived with my head full of programming. Bruce arrived with questions. Somewhere in the untidiness between the two, we found something worth talking about. I walked into my conversation with Bruce badly prepared. Not deliberately. I had simply been engrossed in something completely different….
By Janita Le Grange. Across the street, an old house is being torn down to the ground. For years, it stood there as a quiet shadow of whatever it used to be. Once, it might have been someone’s childhood home—a place filled with warm dinners, loud laughter, and small feet running down the hallway. Then…
This week’s editorial, by Janita Le Grange. This week’s editorial arrived with its own set of challenges. My mind is bursting with so many things to talk about that I feel like I simply don’t have enough paper to write it all down. Lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the twin forces of…
By Sylvie, France. Some adventures need a plan. Some only need trust. And sometimes curiosity is simply waiting to see what happens next. If I had a lot of money, I think I would only travel. There are so many places I would like to discover, especially other cultures. Friends are preparing for a safari…
