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This week “16.34.a - I Don’t Want to Give You More to Read +++
Feature: What’s with my 3 am wakefulness?
This week’s ‘What’s happening in ‘MyFrenchLife™ Magazine’ - a selection of new contributors and fresh articles from across France.
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Judy
29.8.2026
1. What’s with my 3 am wakefulness?
As you probably know if you’ve been around here for a while, I started MyFrenchLife™, the magazine, and this rather wonderful global community of Francophiles sixteen years and thirty-four weeks ago.
Yes, I know. I count. It’s that important to me.
In that time, MyFrenchLife has had more iterations than I can remember. Each one has been me trying to push a little deeper, to improve what I offer to be a little richer, a little more useful, and, hopefully, a little more unmistakably itself.
That part isn’t new. What is new is what has been waking me at 3am.
On most nights recently, I seem to find myself lying there, having the same conversation with myself, and here’s how it’s been going: are you ready?















