In 2015, for our back-to-school adventure, I booked the four of us for a glassblowing class at a studio in Santa Cruz. And, after reading Blown Out of Proportion: Misadventures of a Glassblower in France by Rachel Caldecott*, I decided to dig out some photos. Even though Caldecott's book has them living in Lodève because of her husband's glassblowing business, the narration is much more about a foreigner's misadventures in France than about the actual process of blowing glass. Still, I am going to share these photos because we had so much fun doing it. On the Page Rachel and Chris uproot their family from Bradford-on-Avon and settle in Lodève. In this memoir she details the mishaps that can occur when you do not speak the language fluently and you do not conform to what society expects from you. Someone emailed her, "I can well imagine that you are threatening to some people, some expats particularly, as your lifestyle would be seen as rather eccentric, and to som...