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Mutation of a Famous Fable: ChatGPT Meets La Fontaine
You’ve probably heard about the artificial intelligence chat robot called ChatGPT. Since its debut at the end of 2022, millions of people have used it to create documents, cull data, or simply talk with a new “friend”. ChatGPT’s language processing software is so conversational that the program seems to have…
Creating An Online World of French Immersion and Diversion
New Year’s Resolutions to Sweeten your French Speaking Savvy
My French Odyssey and Ways to Improve Language Skills
Happy New Year 2023 to Friends and Strangers
Coup in Detroit! Rare Van Gogh Exhibit Upstages America’s Coasts
At the end of September, I drove to Detroit to attend a panel discussion featuring two descendants of Vincent van Gogh. Josien van Gogh, Vincent’s great-grandniece, and her daughter, Janne Heling, had come to the Motor City to help kick off a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, titled Van Gogh…
A Look at Cancel Culture’s Trashing of a Remarkable Filmmaker
This week I listened to an interview with Meg Smaker, a gutsy yet empathetic filmmaker whose documentary, Jihad Rehab, was initially hailed by numerous film festivals and critics, then condemned and dropped like a hot potato. The claim that the film was Islamaphobic is behind its sudden death sentence. After…
Mutation of a Famous Fable: ChatGPT Meets La Fontaine

You’ve probably heard about the artificial intelligence chat robot called ChatGPT. Since its debut at the end of 2022, millions of people have used it to create documents, cull data, or simply talk with a new “friend”. ChatGPT’s language processing software is so conversational that the program seems to have…
Creating An Online World of French Immersion and Diversion
New Year’s Resolutions to Sweeten your French Speaking Savvy
My French Odyssey and Ways to Improve Language Skills
Happy New Year 2023 to Friends and Strangers
Coup in Detroit! Rare Van Gogh Exhibit Upstages America’s Coasts

At the end of September, I drove to Detroit to attend a panel discussion featuring two descendants of Vincent van Gogh. Josien van Gogh, Vincent’s great-grandniece, and her daughter, Janne Heling, had come to the Motor City to help kick off a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, titled Van Gogh…
A Look at Cancel Culture’s Trashing of a Remarkable Filmmaker

This week I listened to an interview with Meg Smaker, a gutsy yet empathetic filmmaker whose documentary, Jihad Rehab, was initially hailed by numerous film festivals and critics, then condemned and dropped like a hot potato. The claim that the film was Islamaphobic is behind its sudden death sentence. After…