'Africa Called Her Name'

Late last year, Elaine Fougere published what might be called the ultimate travel book, "Africa Calls My Name: Remembering, Not Wondering." (available on Kobo)
Warning: This is not your regular ‘travel book,' but rather her first-person account of moving her family to live in Zambia for a year.
Transparency: Elaine is my cousin-in-law; her husband Roy is my first cousin.

Early in the book, she confesses that she had always wanted to travel and live in Africa, and was getting restless.
By mid-1995, the family had just lived through a grueling five-year bout of chemo therapy against Roy's cancer, and were ready to do something new — and different.
Roy, a mining engineer, signed a contract with copper mine in central Zambia to help improve the skills of local miners.
Their two children, daughter Leah, and son Nicholas, both approaching their teens, were both eager to make the move.
Using a straight-ahead, highly readable style (remeniscent of the lady herself!), Elaine describes their adventures of settling and living in Zambia for a year.

Bonne fête de l’Acadie!

Attention, tous les Acadiens / Acadiennes de partout dans le monde -- de l’Acadie, du Canada, de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, et nos cousins / cousines de la Louisianne, du Texas: célébrons ensemble notre Fête nationale.

On va faire, partout, un grand 'Tantamarre,' pour proclamer:
'Asteure q'on est là, c'est pour y rester!'
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Félicitations, et bonne fête Acadienne!